Plausible Worlds
Subtitle: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 26, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780521457767
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Social & political philosophy; Methodology; History - General History; Philosophy; General; Historiography; History / Historiography; Philosophy / General; Philosophy-General; Social Science-Methodology
First sentence: It can be tempting to play what E. H. Carr called 'parlour-games with might-have-beens'.