Historical Causation: Is One Thing more Important than Another?

It is shown that although E. H. Carr's position on the question of the priority of causes is so familiar among historians as to constitute the orthodoxy of the profession, it is beset by a number of problems. It is argued that historians cannot relegate philosophical problems to some separate,...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:History (London) 1995-06, Vol.80 (259), p.227-242
Main Author: RIGBY, S. H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bottles
Carr, E H
Causality
Causation
Depopulation
Historians
Historical materialism
Historical particularism
History
Landlords
Marxian economics
Marxist history
Peasant class
Philosophy
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:It is shown that although E. H. Carr's position on the question of the priority of causes is so familiar among historians as to constitute the orthodoxy of the profession, it is beset by a number of problems. It is argued that historians cannot relegate philosophical problems to some separate, auxiliary discipline called the "philosophy of history."
ISSN:0018-2648
1468-229X
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229X.1995.tb01668.x