History of Philosophy: An Introduction

Author: [British] Walsh
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: It should be said that history is a science, and an independent science. Since history is a science, it necessarily shares the universality of science; whatever science possesses in terms of universality, history also possesses. At the same time, it is an independent science, and as an independent science, it also has its independence, which is the particularity that distinguishes it from general science. The author of this book, Walsh, is a renowned contemporary British philosopher. This book summarizes modern Western historical philosophy into two categories: speculative historical philosophy and analytical historical philosophy. The former studies the laws of the development and evolution of history itself, while the latter studies the epistemology of historiography. This distinction has now become an important consensus in the field of contemporary Western historiographical theory. The American Historical Review：“It should be required reading for every scholar who reflects on history or historiography.”