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Our knowledge of the past : a philosophy of historiography /
How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past. Using the analytic tools of cont...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
Ã2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past. Using the analytic tools of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science the book covers such topics as evidence, theory, methodology, explanation, determination and underdetermination, coincidence, contingency and counterfactuals in historiography. Aviezer Tucker's central claim is that historiography as a scientific discipline should be thought of as an effort to explain the evidence of past events. He also emphasizes the similarity between historiographic methodology to Darwinian evolutionary biology. This is an important, fresh new approach to historiography and will be read by philosophers, historians and social scientists interested in the methodological foundations of their disciplines.--Publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 291 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511196024 9780511196027 0511195362 9780511195365 9780511498381 0511498381 1280477946 9781280477942 9780521120777 0521120772 1139931156 9781139931151 1107149487 9781107149489 0511194706 9780511194702 |