Objectivity and Historical Understanding Book

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	History or legend?	3
3	Cognitional theory	8
4	Knowledge and objectivity	21
5	Objectivity: science and common sense	37
6	Comparisons and contrasts: Davidson and Lonergan	49
7	Comparisons and contrasts: Lonergan and Rorty	64
8	Objections to the position	80
9	Lonergan on historiography	95
10	The problems of historical objectivity	113
11	Historical fact	122
12	Metahistory	131
13	Objectivity and the objectives of history	140
14	Conclusion	150
App	Transcendental arguments	154
	Bibliography	163
	Index	171