Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Glossary of Terms xii
1 Introduction 1Aviezer Tucker
Part I Major Fields 7
2 Philosophy of Historiography 9Peter Kosso
3 Philosophy of History 26ZdenFk VaSíCek
4 Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography 44Carol E. Cleland
5 Historians and Philosophy of Historiography 63John Zammito
Part II Basic Problems 85
6 Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation 87Mark Day and Gregory Radick
7 Causation in Historiography 98Aviezer Tucker
8 Historiographic Counterfactuals 109Elazar Weinryb
9 Historical Necessity and Contingency 120Yemima Ben-Menahem
10 Explanation in Historiography 131Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald
11 Historiographic Understanding 142Giuseppina D’Oro
12 Colligation 152C. Behan McCullagh
13 The Laws of History 162Stephan Berry
14 Historiographic Objectivity 172Paul Newall
15 Realism about the Past 181Murray Murphey
16 Anti-realism about the Past 190Fabrice Pataut
17 Narrative and Interpretation 199F. R. Ankersmit
18 The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography 209Lars Udehn
19 Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning 220Aviezer Tucker
20 Phylogenetic Inference 231Matt Haber
21 Historicism 243Robert D’Amico
22 Ethics and the Writing of Historiography 253Jonathan Gorman
23 Logical Fallacies of Historians 262Paul Newall
24 Historical Fallacies of Historians 274Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King
Part III Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography 285
25 Philosophy of History of Science 287Nicholas Jardine
26 Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences 297Harold Kincaid
27 The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory 307Michael Ruse
28 The Philosophy of Geology 318Rob Inkpen
29 Philosophy of Archaeology 330Ben Jeffares
30 Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology 342Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald
31 Historiography and Myth 353Mary Lefkowitz
32 Historiography and Memory 362Marie-Claire Lavabre
33 Historiographic Schools 371Christopher Lloyd
Part IV Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History 381
34 Leopold Ranke 383Thomas Gil
35 Scientific Historiography 393Chris Lorenz
36 Darwin 404John S. Wilkins
37 Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism 416Krzysztof Brzechczyn
38 Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History 427Samuel Moyn
39 Muslim Philosophy of History 437Zaid Ahmad
40 Vico 446Joseph Mali
41 Kant and Herder 457Sharon Anderson-Gold
42 Hegel 468Tom Rockmore
43 Neo-Kantianism 477Charles Bambach
44 Marx 488Tom Rockmore
45 Collingwood and Croce 498Stein Helgeby
46 Phenomenology 508David Weberman
47 Jan Patocka 518Ivan Chvatík
48 Hermeneutics 529Rudolf A. Makkreel
49 Postmodernism 540Beverley Southgate
50 Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War 550Krishan Kumar
Index 561