TY - BOOK ID - 2919756 TI - Our knowledge of the past : a philosophy of historiography PY - 2004 SN - 0521834155 9780521120777 9780521834155 9780511498381 0511196024 9780511196027 0511195362 9780511195365 0511193963 9780511193965 0511498381 1280477946 9781280477942 0521120772 1139931156 1107149487 051131437X 0511194706 0511193262 9781139931151 9781107149489 9780511194702 PB - Cambridge New York Port Melbourne Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Criticism [Historical ] KW - Critique historique KW - Geschiedkundige methodologie KW - Geschiedschrijving KW - Geschiedschrijving--Methodologie KW - Historical criticism KW - Historical method KW - Historical methodology KW - Historiografie KW - Historiographie KW - Historiography KW - Historische kritiek KW - Historische methode KW - Historische methodologie KW - History--Criticism KW - Kritiek [Historische ] KW - Methodologie [Historische ] KW - Methodology [Historical ] KW - Historiography. KW - History KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy KW - History, Modern KW - Authorship KW - Criticism KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Histoire KW - Philosophie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2919756 AB - 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. ER -