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ONTENTS
Nonchapter: or Why Did You Do It That Way? p.
3
USING THE NONCHAPTER
3
THE USE OF HISTORY
Ą
WHAT A PRIMES IS
6
OBSTACLES TO UNDERSTANDING HISTORY
7
A CLAIM TO UNIQUENESS
9
HISTORY, PHILOSOPHERS AND HISTORIANS
10
FOCAL CENTERS
10
DESCRIPTION AND PRESCRIPTION
ІЗ
THE USE OF SCIENCE
ІЗ
ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHERS AND HISTORY I4
THE ASSIMILATION OF HISTORY TO SCIENCE l6
BORROWING AND NOVELTY
ig
CHAPTER I
The Cases of the Muddy Pants, the Dead Mr. Sweet, and the Conver¬
gence of Particles, or Explanation Why and Prediction in History
21
The troubles over historical explanation why and causal ex¬
planation,
21.
The Case of the Muddy Pants,
25.
The deductive
or covering-law model of expfonation,
26.
Application of the
covering-law model to historical explanation why
—
the
case of a population change,
27.
The adequate exphnation
why of the Muddy Pants,
29.
Why questions and the Case
of the Dead Mr. Sweet,
33.
Prediction and predictability of the
future,
36.
Predictability and prediction byprofessional histo¬
rians; prediction of the past and its uses,
зд.
xü Contents
CHAPTER II
What Makes It So Easy and So Hard, or the Language of History
43
Prediction again; the Case of the Professor of Engineering,
43.
The source of errors in predictions of future happenings,
44.
The dignity of History and humbleness of history,
46.
Sci¬
ence and common sense,
48.
The practice of history and com¬
mon sense,
50.
Historical explanation and common language,
51.
Every man as historian,
52.
The vocabulary and syntax of
written history,
53.
What makes writing good history hard,
57.
Bias and the selection of data in history writing,
60.
Complex¬
ity, ease, and difficulty in historical explanations,
63.
CHAPTER III
Points without Lines, or the Record of the Past
65
The record of the past,
65.
The attrition of the record,
67.
The
accretion of the record,
68.
The deficiencies of the record
—
the
Army-McCarthy hearings, 6g. The exiguousness of the record,
71.
The historians and the record of the past,
73.
The passivity
of the record: King Cole or King Charles?
75.
The activity of
historians; points and lines,
76.
CHAPTER IV
The Sown and the Waste, or the Second Record
80
Historians and the second record, So. The record of the past
and the second record: the death of a King,
81.
The silence over
the second record,
83.
Historical objectivity and the second
record,
84.
History and the social sciences,
87.
History and
social sciences in the second record: the case of Utopia,
89.
The
sown and the waste,
93.
The uses of the waste: the case of
Utopia (cont d),
95.
The uses of language, transhtional and
psychedelic,
10$.
Affective language and the extension of his¬
torical knowledge,
106.
The rhetoric of history and the limits of
certainty,
108.
CHAPTER V
Galloping Gertie and the Insurance Companies, or Analysis and Story
in History
110
The new wave in history: analysis,
110.
Analysis into fac¬
tors
112.
Factors and sufficient causes,
113.
Sufficient causes
Contents xiii
and sufficient quantities,
114.
Underlying and immediate
causes,
115.
The problem of anti-disposing factor,
116.
Con¬
junctions in history: the Case of Galloping Gertie,
118.
Inquest
and verdict on a failure,
12,0.
Engineering explanation and
historical explanation: the failure reports of
1941
and
1952,
124.
The Fall of Galloping Gertie as an historical story,
134.
The lessons of Galloping Gertie: complexity and the fallacy of
misplaced abstraction,
135.
The attractions and dangers of
analysis,
136.
The problem of incapsulation or container equiv¬
alents,
137.
The Case of the Insurance Companies,
140.
The
canon of credibility in historical explanation,
143.
Application
of the canon: the story of the American rebellion,
144.
Expla¬
nation through story-improving,
146.
CHAPTER VI
The Pennant Race and the Baseball Season, or Historical Story and
Narrative Explanation
149
The philosophers discovery of stories that explain,
149.
The
assimilation of historical stories to scientific explanations,
150.
Covering-law explanation and the pennant race,
151.
The
problem of synonymy,
154.
Assimilation by narrative explana¬
tion and the pennant race,
155.
A critique of narrative expla¬
nation,
157.
Story or analysis? The American League season of
X939,
161.
Beginning an explanation by story-telling: the pen¬
nant race,
164.
The historians hang-up: the
positivist-idealist
syndrome,
168.
Perspective, tempo, and observation point in
explanation by story-telling,
170.
Logic, macrorhetoric, and
truth in history,
172.
CHAPTER
VII
The Last Game, or
Processive
Explanation in History
175
An historical story: The Last Game,
175.
Analytical philoso¬
phers and historians on history,
188.
The data-selectivity of
story-telling,
188.
The
interpénétration
of narrative and analy¬
sis in historical stories,
190.
Processive
explanation, and expla¬
nation by covering laws and narration,
191.
Pivot points, macro-
rhetoric, and
processive
explanation,
192.
Processive
explana¬
tion and the forms and conditions of historical explanation,
195.
xiv Contents
CHAPTER
VIII
Aristocratic
Education and Beneficial Leases, or Beyond Explanation
Why and Beyond Explanation in History
198
The obsession with explanation why,
χ
98.
Processive
expla¬
nation and aristocratic education,
199.
The movement of a
processive
explanation,
202.
Processive
explanation and the
historical account,
205.
The problem of relevance: history as
non-explanation,
206.
History s primordial questions,
208.
The
question, What was it like? and the beneficial lease,
210.
Knowing what others were like and explaining what happened,
211.
Understanding others and control of self,
214.
History,
understanding, and justice,
216.
Historians and the limits of
the record,
217.
A modest mission for historians,
219.
APPEN¬
DIX: A social scientist s explanation by story-telling
—
Bernard
Bereisen
on the behavioral sciences,
221.
CHAPTER IX
Footnotes, Quotations, Name Lists, and Hypothetical Subjunctives,
or the Microrhetoric of History
225
Macrorhetoric and microrhetoric in history,
225.
The micro-
rhetorics of history, science, and
fictive
arts,
226.
The uses of
footnotes,
227.
The Reality rule,
228.
The Maximum Impact
Rule,
229.
The uses of quotations in the text,
230.
The Econ-
omy-of-Quotations Rule,
232.
Microrhetoric and macrorhetoric:
the ceork and the Scots,
232.
Name lists, scientific and histori¬
cal,
234.
The microrhetoric of historical name lists,
237.
Histo¬
rians and hypothetical subjunctives,
242.
Summary,
246.
CHAPTER X
The Dumblians and Another Ball Game, or An Extended
Conclusion
248
History and secular salvation,
248,
The parable of the Dumb¬
lians,
249.
History as another ball game,
251.
Structure and
function in science and history,
253.
Historians and the lure of
natural science and philosophy,
253.
Historians, the natural
sciences and historicists,
255.
The past vs. nature,
256.
The
historical record vs. the experimental record,
257.
The language
of history and value-loading,
258.
Imperfect synonymy in the
language of history,
262.
Large contexts and
processive
dis¬
course in history,
263.
The particular and the general in his-
Contents xv
tory:
bracketing and the search for words,
264.
Credibility,
267.
The claims and limits of common sense,
268.
The achieve¬
ments and mystique of science,
271.
The misfit of science and
history,
273.
Historical discourse and access to truth,
275.
Accessibility and truth: Charles Darwin,
278.
The metaphors
of knowing: the sand heap and the rectilinear path,
282.
His¬
torians and their claims to increasing truth,
286.
History as
non-scientific knowing,
287.
Common sense again,
28g.
Sci¬
ence, believers in science, and the revolt of the young,
290.
History, common sense, and charity,
294.
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