Narration and Knowledge

Introduction to the Morningside Edition ix Preface to Analytical Philosophy of History xv Afterwords: An Introduction to Arthur Danto's Narration and Knowledge xix (including his Analytical Philosophy of History) Lydia Goehr I Substantive and Analytical Philosophy of History 1 II A Minimal Characterization of History 17 III Three Objections Against the Possibility of Historical Knowledge 27 IV Verification, Verifiability and Tensed Sentences 34 V Temporal Language and Temporal Scepticisms 63 VI Evidence and Historical Relativism 88 VII History and Chronicle 112 VIII Narrative Sentences 143 IX Future and Past Contingencies 182 X Historical Explanation: The Problem of General Laws 201 XI Historical Explanation: The Role of Narratives 233 XII Methodological Individualism and Methodological Socialism 257 XIII Historical Understanding: The Problem of Other Periods 285 XIV Historical Language and Historical Reality 298 XV Narration and Knowledge 342 Danto's Philosophy of History in Retrospective 364 Frank Ankersmit Notes 395 Index 433