PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. 1. Two Approaches to Philosophy of History 1
6. 2. Positivism and Its Critics: The Common Assumptions 16
7. 3. Explanatory Competition 30
8. 4. Causal Weighting 53
9. 5. Conceptual and Empirical Subjectivism 85
10. 6. Modest Empirical Subjectivism 105
11. Appendix: Historical Counterexamples 127
12. Notes 141
13. Bibliography 153
14. Index 161