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The philosophy of history : an introduction / Mark Day.

By: Day, Mark.
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2008Description: xii, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780826488480; 082648848X.Subject(s): History -- Philosophy | History -- Methodology | History -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 901
Contents:
Pt I: Evidence of the past - 1. An introduction to historical practice - 2. Historical methodology - 3. Reasoning from the evidence - Pt II: History as science - 4. Abstraction and laws - 5. The causal sciences - 6. Theory and particular - Pt III: History as interpretation - 7. Feeling and thought - 8. Actions, reasons and norms - Pt IV: From interpretation to discourse - 9. Subject and object - 10. Narrative - Pt V: Truth and reality - 11. The absent past - 12. Underdetermination - References - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250) and index.

Pt I: Evidence of the past - 1. An introduction to historical practice - 2. Historical methodology - 3. Reasoning from the evidence - Pt II: History as science - 4. Abstraction and laws - 5. The causal sciences - 6. Theory and particular - Pt III: History as interpretation - 7. Feeling and thought - 8. Actions, reasons and norms - Pt IV: From interpretation to discourse - 9. Subject and object - 10. Narrative - Pt V: Truth and reality - 11. The absent past - 12. Underdetermination - References - Index.