PAUL A. ROTH is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“In this clear, forceful, and inspiring book, Paul A. Roth sets for himself an audacious task: the revival of philosophy of history and a recalibration of how to understand and account for historical explanation. Roth succeeds and with surgical precision offers a new account of narrative historical explanation that holds its own distinct epistemological and metaphysical factors and yet also aligns with other forms of scientific knowledge. It is an erudite and original work that is essential reading for all scholars invested in understanding our relation to the past and the ways that the histories we write come to impact our present and future.” —Ethan Kleinberg, author of Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Reviving Analytic Philosophy of History2. Problems for Narratives Explanations: The Case of History3. The Pasts4. Essentially Narrative Explanations5. The Silence of the Norms6. Kuhn's Narrative Construction of Normal Science7. Methodological Naturalism and Its ConsequencesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

PAUL A. ROTH is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“In this clear, forceful, and inspiring book, Paul A. Roth sets for himself an audacious task: the revival of philosophy of history and a recalibration of how to understand and account for historical explanation. Roth succeeds and with surgical precision offers a new account of narrative historical explanation that holds its own distinct epistemological and metaphysical factors and yet also aligns with other forms of scientific knowledge. It is an erudite and original work that is essential reading for all scholars invested in understanding our relation to the past and the ways that the histories we write come to impact our present and future.” —Ethan Kleinberg, author of Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Reviving Analytic Philosophy of History2. Problems for Narratives Explanations: The Case of History3. The Pasts4. Essentially Narrative Explanations5. The Silence of the Norms6. Kuhn's Narrative Construction of Normal Science7. Methodological Naturalism and Its ConsequencesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

PAUL A. ROTH is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“In this clear, forceful, and inspiring book, Paul A. Roth sets for himself an audacious task: the revival of philosophy of history and a recalibration of how to understand and account for historical explanation. Roth succeeds and with surgical precision offers a new account of narrative historical explanation that holds its own distinct epistemological and metaphysical factors and yet also aligns with other forms of scientific knowledge. It is an erudite and original work that is essential reading for all scholars invested in understanding our relation to the past and the ways that the histories we write come to impact our present and future.” —Ethan Kleinberg, author of Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Reviving Analytic Philosophy of History2. Problems for Narratives Explanations: The Case of History3. The Pasts4. Essentially Narrative Explanations5. The Silence of the Norms6. Kuhn's Narrative Construction of Normal Science7. Methodological Naturalism and Its ConsequencesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex