History Philosophy (Introduction)

Author: [British] Walsh, translated by He Zhaowu
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: It should be said that historiography is a science, and an independent science at that. Since historiography is a science, it necessarily shares the universality of science; whatever universality science possesses, historiography also possesses. At the same time, it is an independent science, and as an independent science, it also has its independence, that is, its particularity that distinguishes it from general science. The author of this book, Walsh, is a renowned contemporary British philosopher. This book summarizes modern Western historiography into two major categories: speculative historiography and analytical historiography. 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 praises this book by saying: "It should be required reading for every scholar who reflects on history or historiography."