proper history; philosophy of history; special histories; general history

The philosophical exchange of theories and opinions concerning the nature of history andhistoriography sometimes exhibits serious signs of conceptual misunderstanding which isfundamentally rooted in the very notion of ?history? itself. Similar disagreement can be found even inrelation to the theory of writing about the past of the discipline itself ? the history of philosophy. On the level of history of political theories, we must mention British philosopher and historian QuentinSkinner who is in a stark contrast to the followers of Arthur O. Lovejoy. While these two groups are constantly arguing about the approach to the interpretation of historical texts and about methodological concerns, philosophers of history are generally interested in the questions of historicalrealism and anti-realism, in the nature of narrative style, or in the eternal question of meaning and reference. Question is, does anybody keep an eye on the practitioners in a similar way as the philosophers of science do?