New Contributions to the Philosophy of History

• Main Author: Little, Daniel. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 6
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ontology.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9410-0

Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past. Likewise, intimate engagement with the writings of historians can deepen philosophers<U+0019...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction History<U+0019>s Pathways
• Chapter One History and narrative
• Chapter Two Historical concepts and social ontology
• Chapter Three Large structures
• Chapter Four Causal mechanisms
• Chapter Five History of Technology
• Chapter Six Economic history
• Chapter Seven The involution debate
• Chapter Eight Mentalitš
• Conclusion
• References.