William Herbert Dray

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According to Wikipedia, William Herbert Dray was a Canadian philosopher of history. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He is known for his version of anti-positivist Verstehen in history, in Laws and Explanation in History, and his work on R. G. Collingwood.

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William Herbert Dray's Published Works

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Laws and explanation in history (1960) (443)
Justifying Historical Descriptions (1984) (84)
Philosophical analysis and history (1978) (77)
History As Re-enactment: R. G. Collingwood's Idea of History (1999) (67)
Perspectives on history (1980) (61)
The Principles of History: And Other Writings in Philosophy of History (1999) (52)
On the Nature and Role of Narrative in Historiography (1971) (50)
Philosophy of History. (1966) (42)
On history and philosophers of history (1989) (30)
History as re-enactment (1995) (30)
Explanatory Narrative in History (1954) (22)
Explaining, understanding, and teaching (1975) (19)
The Dialectic of Action: A Philosophical Interpretation of History and the Humanities (1982) (15)
On Explaining How-Possibly (1968) (15)
A New Philosophy of History (2002) (14)
Narrative versus Analysis in History (1985) (13)
Mandelbaum on Historical Narrative: A Discussion (1969) (12)
Re-enactment: A Study in R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History (1986) (10)
Historical Understanding as Re-Thinking (2015) (9)
PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY (2003) (6)
J. H. Hexter, Neo-Whiggism and Early Stuart Historiography (1987) (5)
Concepts of Causation in A. J. P. Taylor's Account of the Origins of the Second World War (1978) (5)
The Historian's Problem of Selection (1966) (4)
Some causal accounts of the American Civil War (1961) (4)
Substance and Form in History a Collection of Essays in Philosophy of History /Edited by L. Pompa and W.H. Dray. --. -- (1986) (4)
Toynbee's Search for Historical Laws (1960) (4)
Historical Causation and Human Free Will (1960) (3)
Taylor and Chisholm on Making Things to Have Happened (1960) (3)
Collingwood's Historical Individualism (1980) (3)
Causal Judgment in Attributive and Explanatory Contexts (1986) (3)
Freedom and Necessity in History (1958) (2)
Book Reviews : Has History Any Meaning? A Critique of Popper's Philosophy of History. By Burleigh Taylor Wilkins. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978. Pp. 251. $15.00 (1982) (1)
De la Connaissance historique@@@Laws and Explanation in History (1959) (1)
Review Symposium : New Departures in the Theory of Historiography (1979) (1)
R. G. Collingwood on Reflective Thought (1960) (1)
Choosing and Doing (1962) (1)
Presentism, Inevitability and the English Civil War (1982) (1)
The Poverty of Historicism by Karl R. Popper (review) (2017) (1)
History as Applied Science: A Philosophical Study by William Todd (review) (2016) (0)
Freedom and Necessity in History by H. G. Wood (review) (2017) (0)
Time as History by George Grant (review) (2016) (0)
On History and Other Essays. Michael Oakeshott (1985) (0)
History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past by H. Stuart Hughes (review) (1965) (0)
The Logic of Historical Explanation (2004) (0)
Shoghi Effendi's Concept of History (2013) (0)
2. The Philosophy of History and the Historian (1962) (0)
MAURICE MANDELBAUM. — The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge. (1978) (0)
Causation in the Law (1961) (0)
Knowledge and Explanation in History . By R.E. Atkinson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1978. x + 229 pages. $14.95, $6.95 paper. (1980) (0)
Historical Knowing, by Leon J. GoldsteinHistorical Knowing, by Leon J. Goldstein. University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1976. 242 + xxvii pp. (1976) (0)
PROFESSOR RYLE ON ARGUMENTS AND INFERENCE LICENSES (1954) (0)
The Later Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood by Alan Donagan (review) (2016) (0)
The Poverty of Historicism (1959) (0)
The Nature of History by Arthur Marwick (review) (2016) (0)
Generalization, Value-Judgment and Causal Explanation in History (1988) (0)
Book Review:History of Science as Explanation M. A. Finocchiaro (1978) (0)
Methodology of History. Jerzy Topolski (1978) (0)
Hegel’s Philosophy of History by Burleigh Taylor Wilkins (review) (2016) (0)
CAN volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1980) (0)
Ranke: The Meaning of History by Leonard Krieger (review) (2016) (0)
A Study of History. XII. Reconsiderations (1962) (0)
The Later Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (1964) (0)
A Study of History. XII. Reconsiderations by Arnold Toynbee (review) (2016) (0)
Professor Child on Neo-Positivism and History (1962) (0)
Causation in the Law by H. L. A. Hart, A. M. Honoré (review) (2016) (0)
Books in review (1976) (0)
A. L. STINCHCOMBE. — Theoretical Methods in Social History. (1979) (0)
Gordon Graham , Historical Explanation Reconsidered . Reviewed by (1986) (0)

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