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Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past - History Matters (Paperback)
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Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past - History Matters (Paperback)
Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Science
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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.
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