Contributor
Gairdner, Patrick, ed.
Imprint:Glencoe, IL. : Free Press, [c1959]
Descriptionix, 549 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:New science / Giambattista Vico -- Idea of a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view / Immanuel Kant -- Ideas toward a philosophy of the history of man / Johann Gottfried Herder -- Progress of the human mind / Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet -- Philosophical history / G. W. F. Hegel -- Positive philosophy and the study of society / Auguste Comte -- Politics and society / Auguste Comte -- Elucidations of the science of history / John Stuart Mill -- History and the operation of universal laws / Henry Thomas Buckle -- Materialist conception of history / Karl Marx -- Inevitable victory of the proletariat / Karl Marx -- Role of the individual in history / Georgi Plekhanov -- Difficulty of defining the forces that move nations / Leo Tolstoy -- Problem of free will and necessity / Leo Tolstoy -- World-as-history / Oswald Spengler -- Disintegration of civilizations / Arnold Toynbee -- My view of history / Arnold Toynbee -- Understanding of other persons and their life-expressions / Wilhelm Dilthey -- History and chronicle / Benedetto Croce -- Historical determinism and the "philosophy of history" / Bendetto Croce -- Sociology of knowledge / Karl Manheim -- History as re-enactment of past experience / R. G. Collingwood -- Prediction and prophecy in the social sciences / Karl R. Popper -- Dialectal materialism / Bertrand Russell -- "Meaning" in history / W. H. Walsh -- Can we know the pattern of the past? A debate / Pieter Geyl, Arnold Toynbee -- Determinism, relativism, and historical judgments / Isaiah Berlin -- Can history be objective? / Christopher Blake -- Function of general laws in history / Carl G. Hempel - Historical explanation / Morton White -- Some issues in the logic of historical analysis / Ernest Nagel -- Explanations in history and the genetic sciences / W. B. Gallie -- "Explaining what" in history / William Dray -- Explanation and interpretation in history / Charles Frankel -- Explanation in history / Alan Donagan -- Truisms as the grounds for historical explanations / Michael Scriven -- Societal facts / Maurice Mandelbaum -- Holism versus individualism in history and sociology / Ernest Gellner -- Historical explanation in the social sciences / J. W. N. Watkins.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography and index.
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