Article Title：Imagining the history of ideas
Abstract：
Mark Bevir's The Logic of the History of Ideas has a number of strong points. For example, Bevir is nonreductive in his approach to explanation, his procedural individualism rightly favours 'bottom up' explanations, based on the particular facts of a case, over explanations excessively dependent on analogies from general claims that may or may not be applicable to the case in question, and he has an interesting theory of belief change. The main weak point is that his 'history of ideas' is a philosopher's abstraction that has very little to do with the actual field of the history of ideas.
Keywords: history of ideas; historical explanation; procedural individualism; belief change; analytic philosophy
DOI: 10.1080/136425200457029
Source：RETHINKING HISTORY
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