| Description |
x, 403 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The logic of historical narration -- The logic of historical narration / Morton White -- On "the logic of historical narration" / Lee Benson -- Objectivism in history / Maurice Mandelbaum -- The problems of the working historian -- Some problems of a working historian / Leo Gershoy -- Relativism and some problems of working historians / Ernest Nagel -- The problems of the working historian: a comment / Bernard Bailyn -- Patterns in history -- The historical explanation of actions reconsidered / William Dray -- Comments on historical explanation / Leonard Krieger -- Reasons and covering laws in historical explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- Contributions by other participants -- Cause and reason in history / Raziel Abelson -- Rational explanations in history / Evelyn Barker -- Observations on history / Lee A. Belford -- Personality traits as causal explanations in biography / R. B. Brandt -- Do historians use covering laws / Carl N. Degler -- History as factualized fiction / Ernest van de Haag -- The philosophy in history / Albert Hofstadter -- Objectivity and reconstruction in history / Sidney Hook -- On rational explanation in history / Bruce Mazlish -- Comments on white's "logic of historical narration" / Glenn Morrow -- On the logic of historical narration / George H. Nadel -- Rational explanations in history / Kai Nielsen -- History as inquiry / Sidney Ratner -- New issues in the logic of explanation / Michael Scriven -- History as spirit / Sten H. Stenson -- It's about time / Paul Weiss -- Essentials in history / Donald C. Williams. |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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History -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.
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New York University.
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