A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography
Chapter One
Introduction
AVIEZER TUCKER
Editing is never simple, easy, or innocent. I had to make a number of choices at the
outset: like editors of other Companions in the series, I had to decide which topics to
cover, which entries to include, and who are the best available scholars to present them
to a popular readership. But the still fluid and contested state of the philosophies of
historiography and history forced me to make fundamental editorial decisions about
the very nature of the philosophy of historiography that comparable editors were
spared, most notably about what is the scope of this sub-field of philosophy and which
terminology is appropriate for analyzing its problems.
In comparison with other meta-disciplinary philosophies, the task of defining the
philosophies of historiography and history is particularly challenging. "What is the
philosophy of science?" Asks W. H. Newton-Smith in his Introduction to A Companion
to the Philosophy of Science (2000: 2). D ... read full excerpt from A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography ebook
