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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the philosophy of historiography
- 1. Consensus and historiographic knowledge
- 2. The history of knowledge of history
- 3. The theory of scientific historiography
- 4. Historiographic opinion
- 5. Historiographic explanation6. The limits of historiographic knowledge
- Conclusion. Historiography and history.
