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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.The first part of the handbook examines the recent expansion of the scope of the historical sciences in Big History, natural history, global history, and environmental history, and older broader concepts of history like universal history and philosophy of history. The second part of the handbook addresses the ontology and epistemology of the past, including the basic concepts of the historical sciences such as origins, the end of history, determination and underdetermination, contingency and necessity, historical predictions and counterfactuals, and historical pseudoscience. The third part examines the philosophies of the special historical sciences, historical linguistics, textual criticism, geology, evolutionary biology, systematics, archaeology, cosmology, history of the environment, and most significantly, their integrations and combinations – for exampl

Who reads The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History?

Author

Aviezer Tucker (editor); David Černín (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350409231

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Major Branches Of Philosophical Study, Social_sciences