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Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)

Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past By Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)

Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past by Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)


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Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past: History Matters is an accessible tour of the philosophy of the historical sciences. Examining how dinosaurs grew and the emergence of flowering plants in the mid-Cretaceous, it analyses the relationship between knowledge and the past, explaining why narratives play a prominent role in history.

Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past Summary

Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past: History Matters by Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)

Historical sciences like paleontology and archaeology have uncovered unimagined, remarkable and mysterious worlds in the deep past. How should we understand the success of these sciences? What is the relationship between knowledge and history? In Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past: History Matters, Adrian Currie examines recent paleontological work on the great changes that occurred during the Cretaceous period - the emergence of flowering plants, the splitting of the mega-continent Gondwana, and the eventual fall of the dinosaurs - to analyse the knowledge of historical scientists, and to reflect upon the nature of history. He argues that distinctively historical processes are 'peculiar': they have the capacity to generate their own highly specific dynamics and rules. This peculiarity, Currie argues, also explains the historian's interest in narratives and stories: the contingency, complexity and peculiarity of the past demands a narrative treatment. Overall, Currie argues that history matters for knowledge.

Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past Reviews

'In this brief but insightful work, Currie makes a compelling case for the validity of historical science. Currie is noted for his 'optimistic' analysis of the possibilities of historical science ... This intriguing book deserves to be widely read by those interested in the nature of historical science.' Bruce S. Bennett, Metascience

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. History and evidence; 2. The nature of the deep past; 3. Historical explanation; Concluding discussion - what are sciences of the deep past about?

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NLS9781108730556
9781108730556
1108730558
Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past: History Matters by Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-08-15
75
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