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A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography

Aviezer Tucker

PublisherWiley
PublishedMay 15, 2009
LanguageEnglish

The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation, and narrative. The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction, or whether it is coincidental.