The Philosophy of Historiography

A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications.

This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly enough to be seriously instructive. The book has two major purposes, first, to give a reader ...