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Our knowledge of the past : a philosophy of historiography / Aviezer Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Aviezer, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 approach to historiography and will be read by philosophers, historians and social scientists interested in the methodological foundations of their disciplines.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The philosophy of historiography
- Consensus and historiographic knowledge
- The history of knowledge of history
- The theory of scientific historiography
- Historiographic opinion
- Historiographic explanation
- The limits of historiographic knowledge
- Conclusion: Historiography and history.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780511193262
- 0511193262
- 9781139931151
- 1139931156
- 9781107149489
- 1107149487
- 9781280477942
- 1280477946
- 9780511195365
- 0511195362
- 9780511196027
- 0511196024
- 9780511193965
- 0511193963
- 9780511314377
- 051131437X
- 9780511498381
- 0511498381
- 9780511194702
- 0511194706
- OCLC:
- 171138797
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04922 hdl
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