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| List of figures and tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Evidence of the Past | |
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| An introduction to historical practice | |
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| The past in the present | |
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| The professionalization of history | |
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| Relations with the past | |
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| Forms of historical production | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Historical methodology | |
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| Scissors and paste | |
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| Rules of historical reasoning | |
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| Peer reviews | |
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| A philosophical approach to historical reasoning | |
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| Primary sources | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Reasoning from the evidence | |
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| Bayesianism | |
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| The limitations of Bayesianism | |
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| Explanation and inference | |
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| Unwinding the spool | |
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| Explanatory virtues | |
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| The preservation of testimony | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| History as Science | |
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| Abstraction and laws | |
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| What's so great about science? | |
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| Abstraction and quantification | |
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| Positivism | |
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| Laws | |
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| Against universality | |
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| Rehabilitating causation | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| The causal sciences | |
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| Against causation in history | |
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| Singular causation | |
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| Causation and contrasts | |
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| What is a historical theory? | |
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| Justifying historical theories: comparison and contrast | |
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| Justifying historical theories: explaining how | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Theory and particular | |
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| The historian's role | |
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| A priori argument from particularity | |
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| Applying general terms | |
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| The 'chemical' sciences | |
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| Combining theories in practice | |
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| Narrative and theory | |
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| Is naturalism the best account of historical practice? | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| History as Interpretation | |
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| Feeling and thought | |
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| Questions in the philosophy of interpretation | |
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| Empathy | |
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| Collingwood and re-enactment | |
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| Living history | |
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| All history is the history of thought | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Actions, reasons and norms | |
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| Rationality | |
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| What is it to act rationally? | |
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| Meaning and society | |
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| Social norms | |
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| The Great Cat Massacre | |
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| Interim conclusion: interpretation and evidence | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| From Interpretation to Discourse | |
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| Subject and object | |
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| Historicism | |
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| Objectivity and evaluation | |
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| Selection and importance | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Narrative | |
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| What are narratives? | |
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| Narrative and discourse | |
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| Metahistory | |
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| Narrative and truth | |
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| Collective narrative and metanarrative | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Truth and Reality | |
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| The absent past | |
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| Overview: correspondence to reality | |
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| Overview: anti-realism | |
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| Beyond statement truth | |
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| Qualified historical scepticism | |
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| Construction of the past | |
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| Present truth and past truth | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Underdetermination | |
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| Coherence and choice | |
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| Bayesianism reconsidered | |
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| Historiographical disagreement | |
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| Social Construction | |
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| Linguistic Idealism | |
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| Practical relations to the past | |
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| Further reading and study questions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |