William Herbert Dray
William Herbert Dray (23 June 1921, in Montreal – 6 August 2009, in Toronto) was a Canadian philosopher of history. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa.[1]
He is known for his version of anti-positivist Verstehen in history, in Laws and Explanation in History,[2] and his work on R. G. Collingwood.
Publications
- Laws and Explanation in History (1957) with chapters:
- The Covering Law Model
- The Doctrine of Implicit Definition
- Explaining and Predicting
- Causal Laws and Causal Analysis
- The Rationale of Action
- Explaining Why and Explaining How
Notes
- ↑ Official page
- ↑ Michael Martin, Verstehen: The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences (2000), p. 103.
References
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