Volume 8, Number 2 · February 9, 1967
The One That Got Away
By Jack H. Hexter
The Foundation of Historical Knowledge
by Morton White
Harper & Row, 291 pp., $6.95
Analytical Philosophy of History
by Arthur C. Danto
Cambridge, 318 pp., $10.00
For twenty-five years, ever since Professor Carl Hempel wrote The Function of General Laws in History, analytical philosophers have been fiddling around with history: At first they proceeded boldly and then with growing nervousness, as if, despite a fairly brave front maintained for public purposes, they had become increasingly conscious that the subject presented unforeseen difficulties. What are these obstacles to analytical philosophy which the ordinary professional work of historians presents?
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