"This handbook examines the philosophy of the historical sciences and their synthesis in concepts like Big or Deep History. Written by interdisciplinary philosophers, historians, and scientists, it acts as a valuable guide for anybody interested in scientific knowledge of the deep past, Big History, and the philosophy of science"-- Provided by publisher.
"This handbook examines the philosophy of the historical sciences and their synthesis in concepts like Big or Deep History. Written by interdisciplinary philosophers, historians, and scientists, it acts as a valuable guide for anybody interested in scientific knowledge of the deep past, Big History, and the philosophy of science"-- Provided by publisher.
Aviezer Tucker is the Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His publications include Historiographic Reasoning (2024) and Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (2004), as well as numerous articles and reviews about the philosophy of historiography and the philosophy of science. He also edited A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography (2009). He taught or held research positions at the Central European University, Palacky University, Columbia University, New York University, Trinity College, Long Island University, the Australian National University, Queens University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the University of Cologne, the University of Texas in Austin, and Harvard University. David Cernín is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and a member of the university's Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography. He has published on topics including historical realism and anti-realism, intellectual history, and history education. His most recent co-authored book, History Education between Science and Narration (published in Czech as Dejepis mezi vedou a vyprávením), was published in 2023 and partly explored the educational potential of Big History.
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List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - History is not What it Used to Be Aviezer Tucker and Davd Cernín both University of Ostrava Czechia Part One: The scopes of History and historiography Philosophy of Big History David Cernín University of Ostrava Czechia Big History - history science or 'other'? Brian Villmoare University of Nevada USA Natural History James W. McAllister University of Leiden the Netherlands More-than-Human History Marek Tamm Tallinn University Estonia and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon Bielefeld University Germany Epistemic and Ontological Divide between Human History and Prehistory David Cernín University of Ostrava Czechia Global History in Historiography Q. Edward Wang Rowan University USA Universal History Georg Gangl University of Ostrava Czechia The Necessity of Speculation: A Comparison of Big History & Speculative Philosophy of History Naif Al Bidh University of Keele UK Part Two: Ontology and Epistemology of History The Ontology of the Past Adam Timmins University of Ostrava Czechia The Originary Sciences Aviezer Tucker University of Ostrava Czechia Historical Necessity vs. Contingency Alexander Maar State University of Amapá Brazil Determination overdetermination and underdetermination in the historical sciences Efraim Wallach Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science Thomas Rossetter Durham University UK Counterfactuals Alexander Maar State University of Amapá Brazil The End of History: Bang or Whimper? Matthew Slaboch Arizona State University USA Deep Time in Pseudoscience and Pseudo-History Ronald H. Fritze Athens State University USA Part Three: The philosophies of the Special Historical Sciences On the Synthesis of Historical Linguistics and Cognate Disciplines Frank Cabrera University of Arkansas USA Textual Criticism Ronald Hendel University of California Berkeley USA Geology: The Philosophy of Geology as History of This and Other Worlds Daniel Swaim Marquette University USA Evolutionary Biology David C. Krakauer and Douglas Erwin both Santa Fe Institute USA Systematics: Inference of the Biological Past Kirk Fitzhugh Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County USA Philosophy of Archaeology Dinçer Çevik Mugla Sitki Koçman University Turkey Astronomy Cosmology and the Distant Past Jamee Elder Tufts University USA The First Three Minutes: Cosmology Astrophysics and Particle Physics Siyu Yao Indiana University Bloomington USA The Philosophy and Theory of Environmental History Esa Ruuskanen and Kari Väyrynen both University of Oulu Finland Bibliography Index
List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - History is not What it Used to Be Aviezer Tucker and Davd Cernín both University of Ostrava Czechia Part One: The scopes of History and historiography Philosophy of Big History David Cernín University of Ostrava Czechia Big History - history science or 'other'? Brian Villmoare University of Nevada USA Natural History James W. McAllister University of Leiden the Netherlands More-than-Human History Marek Tamm Tallinn University Estonia and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon Bielefeld University Germany Epistemic and Ontological Divide between Human History and Prehistory David Cernín University of Ostrava Czechia Global History in Historiography Q. Edward Wang Rowan University USA Universal History Georg Gangl University of Ostrava Czechia The Necessity of Speculation: A Comparison of Big History & Speculative Philosophy of History Naif Al Bidh University of Keele UK Part Two: Ontology and Epistemology of History The Ontology of the Past Adam Timmins University of Ostrava Czechia The Originary Sciences Aviezer Tucker University of Ostrava Czechia Historical Necessity vs. Contingency Alexander Maar State University of Amapá Brazil Determination overdetermination and underdetermination in the historical sciences Efraim Wallach Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science Thomas Rossetter Durham University UK Counterfactuals Alexander Maar State University of Amapá Brazil The End of History: Bang or Whimper? Matthew Slaboch Arizona State University USA Deep Time in Pseudoscience and Pseudo-History Ronald H. Fritze Athens State University USA Part Three: The philosophies of the Special Historical Sciences On the Synthesis of Historical Linguistics and Cognate Disciplines Frank Cabrera University of Arkansas USA Textual Criticism Ronald Hendel University of California Berkeley USA Geology: The Philosophy of Geology as History of This and Other Worlds Daniel Swaim Marquette University USA Evolutionary Biology David C. Krakauer and Douglas Erwin both Santa Fe Institute USA Systematics: Inference of the Biological Past Kirk Fitzhugh Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County USA Philosophy of Archaeology Dinçer Çevik Mugla Sitki Koçman University Turkey Astronomy Cosmology and the Distant Past Jamee Elder Tufts University USA The First Three Minutes: Cosmology Astrophysics and Particle Physics Siyu Yao Indiana University Bloomington USA The Philosophy and Theory of Environmental History Esa Ruuskanen and Kari Väyrynen both University of Oulu Finland Bibliography Index
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