Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-536).
Contents
Philosophies of history: Vico to Collingwood. The interpretation of the historical process ; The 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 Gottfired Herder ; The progress of the human mind / Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet ; Philosophical history / G.W.F. Hegel ; The 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 ; The materialist conception of history / Karl Marx ; The inevitable victory of the proletariat / Karl Marx ; The role of the individual in history / Georgi Plekhanov ; The difficulty of defining the forces that move nations / Leo Tolstoy ; The problem of free will and necessity / Leo Tolstoy ; The world as history / Oswald Spengler ; The disintegration of civilizations / Arnold Toynbee ; My view of history / Arnold Toynbee -- The nature of historical knowledge. The understanding of other persons and their life-expressions / Wilhelm Dilthey ; History and chronicle / Benedetto Croce ; Historical determinism and the "philosophy of history" / Benedetto Croce ; The sociology of knowledge / Karl Mannheim ; History as re-enactment of past experience / R.G. Collingwood -- Recent view concerning historical knowledge and explanation. Critiques of classical theories of history ; Prediction and prophecy in the social sciences / Karl R. Popper ; Dialectical materialism / Bertrand Russell ; "Meaning" in history / W.H. Walsh ; Can we know the pattern of the past? - A debate / Pieter Geyl and Arnold Toynbee ; Determinism, relativism, and historical judgments / Isaiah Berlin ; Can history be objective? / Christopher Blake -- Explanation and laws. The 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 -- History and the social sciences. Societal facts / Maurice Mandelbaum ; Holism versus individualism in history and sociology / Ernest Gellner ; Historical explanation in the social sciences / J.W.N. Watkins ; Reply to Mr. Watkins / Ernest Gellner.
