The essential difference between history and science

History and Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Martin, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0002328406     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00001     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. J. H. Hexter, The History Primer (New York, 1971), 207, 215.
2. Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge, Eng. , 1988), 441.
3. David Cannadine, Review, TLS (February 4, 1994), 4.
4. Isaiah Berlin, "The Concept of Scientific History," History and Theory 1 (1960), 1-31.
5. Reprinted in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed. William Dray (New York, 1966), 5-53.
6. Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Cambridge, Mass. , 1974), x.
7. Howard Zinn, The Politics of History (Boston, 1970), 41.
8. Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York, 1992), 30.
9. Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (London, 1961), 550.
10. Murray G. Murphey, Our Knowledge of the Historical Past (Indianapolis, 1973), 112.
11. Ulric Neisser, "Five Kinds of Self-Knowledge. " Philosophical Psychology 1 (1988), 37-59.
12. Reprinted in Self and Identity, ed. Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin (New York, 1991), 386-406, at 387-388.
13. Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States [1913] (New York, 1935), 7-8.
14. Edmund Morgan, The Birth of the Republic 1763-89 [1956], 3d ed. (Chicago, 1992), 50.
15. Both of Miller's remarks are quoted in Novick, 380-381.
16. For more on this approach see Raymond Martin, The Past Within Us (Princeton, 1989)
17. Martin, "Objectivity and Meaning in Historical Studies: Toward a Post-Analytic View," History and Theory 32 (1993), 25-50
18. Martin, Review essay of Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History, in History and Theory 34 (1995), 320-329.
19. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 5.
20. Joyce Appleby, "The Radical Recreation of the American Republic," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 51 (1994), 681.
21. Barbara Clark Smith, "The Adequate Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 51 (1994), 684.
22. Michael Zuckerman, "Rhetoric, Reality, and the Revolution: The Genteel Radicalism of Gordon Wood," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 51 (1994), 694-695.
23. Thanks to John Barresi, Kevin Levin, and Sara Vollmer for many useful criticisms and suggestions, and also to those who commented so helpfully when I read an earlier version of this paper at Dalhousie University in the summer of 1995.