Explanation by description

An essay on historical methodology

af Fred D. Newman

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introductory Remarks: In the beginning there were the covering-law theorists -- II. The Historical Explanation Sketch -- III. From Caterpillar to Butterfly: A Case History of the How-Possibly -- IV. How Possiblies, How Actualies and How Historians Explain -- V. Historians, Freedom and the Logic of Prediction -- VI. Concluding Remarks: Historian, qua Super Scientist -- Epilogue