Table of Contents

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Glossary of Terms.

1. Introduction: Aviezer Tucker (Prague).

Part I Major Fields:.

2. Philosophy of Historiography: Peter Kosso (Northern Arizona University).

3. Philosophy of History: Zdeněk Vašíček (Institute for Contemporary History, Prague).

4. Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography: Carol E. Cleland (University of Colorado, Boulder).

5. Historians and Philosophy of Historiography: John Zammito (Rice University).

Part II: Basic Problems:.

6. Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation: Mark Day (Nottingham–Trent University) and Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

7. Causation in Historiography: Aviezer Tucker (Prague).

8. Historiographic Counterfactuals: Elazar Weinryb (Open University of Israel).

9. Historical Necessity and Contingency: Yemima Ben–Menahem (Hebrew University).

10. Explanation in Historiography: Graham Macdonald (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) and Cynthia Macdonald (Queen’s University, Belfast).

11. Historiographic Understanding: Guiseppina D’Oro (Keele University).

12. Colligation: C. Behan McCullagh (La Trobe University).

13. The Laws of History: Stephan Berry (Berlin).

14. Historiographic Objectivity: Paul Newall (British Royal Navy).

15. Realism about the Past: Murray Murphey (University of Pennsylvania).

16. Anti–realism about the Past: Fabrice Pataut (Institut de l’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris).

17. Narrative and Interpretation: F. R. Ankersmit (University of Groningen).

18. The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography: Lars Udehn (Stockholm University).

19. Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning: Aviezer Tucker (Prague).

20. Phylogenetic Inference: Matt Haber (University of Utah).

21. Historicism: Robert D’Amico (University of Florida).

22. Ethics and the Writing of Historiography: Jonathan Gorman (Queen’s University, Belfast).

23. Logical Fallacies of Historians: Paul Newall (British Royal Navy).

24. Historical Fallacies of Historians: Carlos Spoerhase (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Colin G. King (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Part III: Philosophy and Sub–fields of Historiography:.

25. Philosophy of History of Science: Nicholas Jardine (University of Cambridge).

26. Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences: Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama, Birmingham).

27. The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Michael Ruse (Florida State University).

28. The Philosophy of Geology: Rob Inkpen (University of Portsmouth).

29. Philosophy of Archaeology: Ben Jeffares (Australia National University).

30. Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology: Cynthia Macdonald (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Graham Macdonald (University of Canterbury, New Zealand).

31. Historiography and Myth: Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College).

32. Historiography and Memory: Marie–Claire Lavabre (CNRS, France).

33. Historiographic Schools: Christopher Lloyd (University of New England).

Part IV: Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History:.

34. Leopold Ranke: Thomas Gil (Technical University of Berlin).

35. Scientific Historiography: Chris Lorenz (VU University of Amsterdam).

36. Darwin: John S. Wilkins (University of Queensland).

37. Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism: Krzysztof Brzechczyn (Adam Mickiewitz University/Institute of National Remembrance, Poland).

38. Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History: Samuel Moyn (Columbia University).

39. Muslim Philosophy of History: Zaid Ahmad (Universiti Putra, Malaysia).

40. Vico: Joseph Mali (Tel Aviv University).

41. Kant and Herder: Sharon Anderson–Gold (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

42. Hegel: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University).

43. Neo–Kantianism: Charles Bambach (University of Dallas).

44. Marx: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University).

45. Collingwood and Croce: Stein Helgeby (Melbourne).

46. Phenomenology: David Weberman (Central European University, Hungary).

47. Jan Patočka: Ivan Chvatik (Czech Academy of Science).

48. Hermeneutics: Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University).

49. Postmodernism: Beverley Southgate (University of Hertfordshire).

50. Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War: Krishnan Kumar (University of Virginia).

Index