Nature and Historical Experience Author:John Herman Randall, Jr. The inquiries of the logical positivists and he analyses of the logicians have dominated much of the philosophical literature of our time. Yet the metaphysical problems which these two methods have attempted to analyze continue to perplex the thinking man as well as the philosopher. Now, John Herman Randall, intellectual descendant of John Dewey... more » and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, discusses two central and related themes in philosophy--the theory of history and the theory of nature. Beginning with the fundamental thesis that experience is historical, Randall brilliantly delineates the nature of historical knowledge, its basic assumptions and the special problems that it poses to our understanding of history. The essays delve into behavioristic, operational, and contextual views of "being."« less