UID:
almafu_9959243191302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (vii, 291 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780511193262
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0511193262
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9781139931151
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1139931156
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9781107149489
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1107149487
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9781280477942
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1280477946
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9780511195365
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0511195362
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9780511196027
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0511196024
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9780511193965
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0511193963
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9780511314377
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051131437X
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9780511498381
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0511498381
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9780511194702
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0511194706
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521120777
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521120772
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521834155
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521834155
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498381
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