The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cernin, David, editor.

Tucker, Aviezer, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Bloomsbury handbooks.

Bloomsbury handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

An authoritative overview of the methodologies and trajectory of Big History, the innovative multidisciplinary historiographical approach which considers human history in the wider context of a deeper past.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction - History is not what it used to be Aviezer Tucker and David Černín

Part One The scopes of history and historiography

1 Philosophy of Big History David Černín

2 Big History - History, science or 'other'? Brian Villmoare

3 Natural history James W. McAllister

4 More-than-human history Marek Tamm and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

5 Epistemic and ontological divide between human history and prehistory David Černín

6 Global history in historiography Q. Edward Wang

7 Universal History Georg Gangl

8 The necessity of speculation: A comparison of Big History and speculative philosophy of history Naif Al Bidh

Part Two Ontology and epistemology of history

9 The ontology of the past Adam Timmins

10 The originary sciences Aviezer Tucker

11 Historical necessity vs. contingency Alexander Maar

12 Determination, overdetermination and underdetermination in the historical sciences Efraim Wallach

13 Prediction and testing in historical natural science Thomas Rossetter

14 Counterfactuals Alexander Maar

15 The end of history: Bang, or whimper? Matthew Slaboch

16 Deep time in pseudoscience and pseudo-history Ronald H. Fritze

Part Three The philosophies of the special historical sciences

17 On the synthesis of historical linguistics and cognate disciplines Frank Cabrera

18 Textual criticism Ronald Hendel

19 Geology: The philosophy of geology as history of this and other worlds Daniel Swaim

20 Evolutionary biology David C. Krakauer and Douglas Erwin

21 Systematics: Inferences of the biological past Kirk Fitzhugh

22 Philosophy of archaeology Dinçer Çevik

23 Astronomy, cosmology and the distant past Jamee Elder

24 The first three minutes: Cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics Siyu Yao.

25 The philosophy and theory of environmental history Esa Ruuskanen and Kari Väyrynen

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-40923-5

1-350-40922-7

OCLC:

1520505792