Cover Image

The logic of history : putting postmodernism in perspective /

Show other versions (1)
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCullagh, C. Behan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
Postmodernism.
Historiography.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The possibility of historical knowledge
  • Theories of truth
  • Some common reasons for scepticism
  • The meanings of texts, actions and events
  • The meanings of texts
  • Problems about knowing the meanings of texts
  • The meaning of actions, events and practices in history
  • Justifying descriptions of the past
  • Justifying descriptions of single events
  • Lawlike regularities
  • Descriptions of social structures
  • Causes of human actions
  • Mental causes of human actions
  • Cultural and social causes of human actions
  • Conclusion
  • Types of historical narrative
  • Commonsense narratives
  • Colligatory patterns
  • Summary interpretations
  • Judging historical narratives
  • The credibility of historical narratives
  • Fairness
  • Causes and conditions in history
  • The nature of causes and conditions in history
  • Checking out particular causes and conditions
  • Checking necessary and sufficient conditions by judging generalizations
  • Historical explanations
  • Genetic and contrastive explanations of individual actions
  • Profound explanations
  • Structural explanations.