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Annotated Bibliography for the Philosophy of History

http://faculty.uccb.ns.ca/areynold/paul/Default.htm

Bibliography of many of the major philosophy of history works. Each book mentioned has an explanatory comment.

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Christian Philosophy of History

http://seekingwisdom.com/goubman.htm

Comparison between Jacques Maritain and Nicolas Berdyaev's Christian philosophy of history and their impact on the Christian views of history and of mankind's future.

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Cultural Philosophy of History

http://www.freewebs.com/randoc/

Rando's blog, which includes a review of Danto, Gress and Collins's cultural philosophy of history

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Daniel Little’s New Philosophy of History

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~delittle/

Links to documents containing Professor Little's application of the philosophy of science's approach to the philosophy of history.

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Feminist History of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist/

Addresses the male-centric distortions in the main philosophies of history.

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Five Epochs of Civilization

http://www.worldhistorysite.com/prediction.html

Summary of William McGaughey's 'Five Epochs of Civilization', which splits history into four epochs each centered on a key communication technology. The fifth epoch is his prediction of the future.

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Forrester, Rochelle

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rochelle.f/index.html

Site attempts to explain the causes of historical social and cultural change, featuring articles about the discovery of agriculture, the invention of the steam engine, chemistry, and the nature of reality.

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Friesian School's Philosophy of History

http://www.friesian.com/philhist.htm

Essays on philosophy of history from the Proceedings of the Friesian School. (This site includes summaries of Asian and ancient European philosophies of history).

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Game Theory of Human History

http://www.nonzero.org/intro.htm

Robert Wright summarizes his book 'Nonzero: The Logic Of Human Destiny', which uses game theory to develop a philosophy of history.

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Geoffrey Elton's Philosophy of History

http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/elton.htm

Summary of the historian Geoffrey Elton's philosophy of history.

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Hayden White's "Metahistory"

http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/syll/syll-metahistory.html

Summarizes Hayden White's book 'Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe', which categories 19th Century historians and philosophers of history.

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Historical Coincidences

http://www.geocities.com/nephilimnot/Parallels.html

Compilation of coincidental dates, numbers and names that link historical events.

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History and the Philosophy of History

http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/gbadams.htm

George Burton Adams' presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1908.

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Ibn Khaldun - Life and Work

http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/klf.htm

Summary of the influential Muslim philosopher's work - in the context of his life experiences.

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Identities: How Governed, Who Pays?

http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-7/index.html

Universal principles of governance in history, based on the concept of individual and group identity, by H. B. Paksoy.

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Islamic Philosophy of History

http://www.al-islam.org/universe/28.htm

Al-Islam site's explanation of the (Shi'ite) Islamic philosophy of history.

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Karl Jaspers and The Axial Age

http://www.history-and-evolution.com/axial/

Article on Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, which was the time period that laid the foundations of modern society

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Karl Popper

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#Soci

Karl Popper's criticism of the belief that history is determined by rules.

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Marxist Philosophy of History

http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/history.html

Extract from Cornelius Castoriadis's 'Socialism or Barbarism' proposing that the philosophical roots of Stalinism were present in Marxism and Leninism.

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