For realism and against the inadequacies of common sense: A response to Arthur Marwick

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 191-207

  Lloyd, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 34248121703     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200949603100108     Document Type: Note

References (15)

1. Arthur Marwick, 'Two Approaches to Historical Study: The Metaphysical (Including 'Postmodernism') and The Historical', Journal of Contemporary History, 30, 1 (January 1995), 5-35
2. Asa Briggs, 'Review Article of Christopher Lloyd, Explanation in Social History', History and Theory, XXIX (1990), 95-9
3. Arthur Marwick, The Nature of History (3rd edn, London 1990), 144-5
4. Arthur Marwick, 'War and the Arts - Is There a Connection? The Case of the Two Total Wars', War in History, 2 (1995), 65-86
5. Hayden White, 'Response to Marwick', Journal of Contemporary History, 30, 2 (April 1995), 233-46
6. Marwick, 'Two Approaches', 26
7. Christopher Lloyd, The Structures of History (Oxford and Cambridge, MA 1993), 103-27
8. Marwick, 'Two Approaches', 27
9. Of the many excellent defences of critical scientific realism see R. Bhaskar, A Realist Theory of Science (Leeds 1975) and Reclaiming Reality (London 1989);
10. R. Boyd, 'Realism, Approximate Truth, and Scientific Method', in C.W. Savage (ed.), Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, XIV (Minneapolis 1990);
11. R. Harré, Varieties of Realism (Oxford 1986);
12. R.W. Miller, Fact and Method (Princeton 1986);
13. W.C. Salmon, 'Four Decades of Scientific Explanation' in P. Kitcher and W.C. Salmon (eds), Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, XIII (Minneapolis 1989)
14. Lloyd, Structures of History, 132
15. Including in Lloyd, Structures of History, especially chap. 4