This page holds links to blog pages that offer positions on various issues in historiography and the philosophy of history and science for which I am in need of critical commentary. As blog pages, they are well suited for dialog, and given this function, the essays are more casual and adventurous than one would expect in scholarly publications. Nevertheless, informal dialog is valuable for the development of thought.
Speaking very generally, these essays aim to support to a projected series of articles that will attempt to rehabilitate the theory of modes of production for understanding world history. However, this project brings with it so many difficult and ambivalent issues, that it has to be approached little by little, and these essays are part of that process. The first of this set of perhaps three articles is about done and will bear the title, “Processual and causal explanation in historiography”.
Attached is a page of links and citations.