Contents
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Glossary of Terms xii
Introduction Aviezer Tucker
Part I Major Fields
Philosophy of Historiography Peter Kosso
Philosophy of History Zdenek Vasicek
Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography Carol E. Cleland
Historians and Philosophy of Historiography John Zammito
Part II Basic Problems
Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation Mark Day and Gregory Radick
Causation in Historiography Aviezer Tucker
Historiographic Counterfactuals Elazar Weinryb
Historical Necessity and Contingency Yemima Ben-Menahem
Explanation in Historiography Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald 131
Historiographic Understanding Giuseppina D'Oro 142
Colligation C. Behan McCullagh 152
The Laws of History Stephan Berry 162
Historiographic Objectivity Paul Newall 172
Realism about the Past 181
Murray Murphey
Anti-realism about the Past Fabrice Pataut 190
Narrative and Interpretation F. R. Ankersmit 199
The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography La rs Udehn 209
Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning Aviezer Tucker 220
Phylogenetic Inference Matt Haber 231
Historicism Robert D'Amico 243
Ethics and the Writing of Historiography 25 3
Jonathan Gorman
Logical Fallacies of Historians Paul Newall 262
Historical Fallacies of Historians Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King 274
Part III Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography 285
2 5 Philosophy of History of Science Nicholas Jardine 287
26 Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences Harold Kincaid 297

The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory Michael Ruse 307
The Philosophy of Geology Rob Inkpen 318
Philosophy of Archaeology Ben Jeffares 330
Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald 342
Historiography and Myth Mary Lejkowitz 353
Historiography and Memory Marie-Claire Lavabre 362
Historiographic Schools Christopher Lloyd 371
Part IV Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography
and History 381
Leopold Ranke Thomas Gil 383
Scientific Historiography Chris Lorenz 393
Darwin John S. Wilkins 404
Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism Krzysztof Brzechczyn 416
Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History Samuel Moyn 427
Muslim Philosophy of History 'Laid Ahmad 437
Vico Joseph Mali 446
Kant and Herder Sharon Anderson-Gold 457
Hegel Tom Rockmore 468
Neo-Kantianism Charles Bambach 477
Marx Tom Rockmorc 488
Collingwood and Croce Stein Helgeby 498
Phenomenology David Weberman 508
JanPatocka Ivan Chvatik 518
Hermeneutics Rudolf A. Makkreel 529
Postmodernism Beverley Southgatc 540
Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War 5 50
Krishan Kumar
Index 561