id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2536 Philosophy of history - Wikipedia .html text/html 7458 826 54 For his part, Christopher Lloyd puts forward four "general concepts of causation" used in history: the "metaphysical idealist concept, which asserts that the phenomena of the universe are products of or emanations from an omnipotent being or such final cause"; "the empiricist (or Humean) regularity concept, which is based on the idea of causation being a matter of constant conjunctions of events"; "the functional/teleological/consequential concept", which is "goal-directed, so that goals are causes"; and the "realist, structurist and dispositional approach, which sees relational structures and internal dispositions as the causes of phenomena".[14] Historians of the Annales School, founded in 1929 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, were a major landmark in the shift from a history centered on individual subjects to studies concentrating in geography, economics, demography, and other social forces. Web Portal on Philosophy of History, Historiography and Historical Culture ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2536.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2536.txt