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Histories and Fallacies

Problems Faced in the Writing of History

By: Carl R. Trueman

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Histories and Fallacies

Problems Faced in the Writing of History

By: Carl R. Trueman

Recent years have brought about a crisis of confidence in the historical profession, leading increasing numbers of readers to ask the question: "How can I know that the stories told by a historian are reliable?" Histories and Fallacies is a primer for those seeking guidance through conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each chapter in Histories and Fallacies gives an account of a particular problem, examines a classic example of that problem, and then suggests a solution or approach that will bear fruit. Readers who come to understand the question of objectivity through an examination of Holocaust denial or interpretive frameworks through Marxism will not just be learning theory but will already be practicing fruitful approaches to history. Histories and Fallacies guides both readers and writers of history away from dead ends and methodological mistakes, and into a fresh confidence in the productive nature of the historical task.

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Crossway

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143352080X

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Reflections on the Practice of Physics

James Clerk Maxwell’s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism

By: Giora Hon,Bernard R. Goldstein

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Reflections on the Practice of Physics

James Clerk Maxwell’s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism

By: Giora Hon,Bernard R. Goldstein

This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell’s contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific methodology as applied by scientists. First and foremost, this study is concerned with practices that are reflected in scientific texts and the ways scientists frame their research. The book is therefore about means and not ends.

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Routledge

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1000030644

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Fabricating History

English Writers on the French Revolution

By: Barton R. Friedman

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Fabricating History

English Writers on the French Revolution

By: Barton R. Friedman

Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of history than their own "Glorious Revolution." To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a microcosm, in short. For these writers maintaining the distinction between "history" and "fiction" was less important than making sense of epochal historical events in symbolic terms. Their works on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars occupy the boundary between history and fiction, and Fabricating History advances the current lively discussion of that boundary. At the same time, this work explores questions about narrative strategies, as they are shaped by, or shape, events. Narratives incorporate the ideological and metaphysical preconceptions that the authors bring with them to their writing. "This is not to argue," Professor Friedman says, "that historical narratives are only about the mind manufacturing them or, more narrowly yet, about themselves as mere linguistic constructs. They illumine both the time and place they seek to re-create and, if by indirection, the time and place of the mind thinking them into being." Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400859344

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The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy

By: George R. Lucas

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The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy

By: George R. Lucas

Lucas' book competently brings Whitehead's philosophy into dialogue with "analytic" philosophy. This is a topic of great originality and considerable potential importance for the field of philosophy. The writing is forceful, concise, and clear." -- George L. Kline, Bryn Mawr College Lucas treats Whitehead within the framework of major themes in current Anglo-American "analytic" philosophy, viewed against the backdrop of significant historical trends in European and American thought since the Enlightenment. This most misunderstood of twentieth-century philosophers is critically interpreted here. Whitehead had developed 50 years ago some ideas only now emerging in analytic philosophy. Lucas examines the significance of Whitehead's thought for current epistemology of science, for the anti-foundationalism debate, and more generally, for modal logic, action, theory, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of mind. He shows how some recent analytic philosophy is now developing ideas concerning language, personal identity, and other topics that are found in Whitehead. Lucas concludes with recent problems in relativity theory and quantum mechanics, indicating how these bear on the philosophy of science and on the task of forging a comprehensive understanding of nature. He examines the debates concerning Einstein and Whitehead on relativity and analyzes the work of Bohm, Prigogine, and others who have found Whitehead's categories useful for their own success. Whitehead is shown to be a historical figure of great importance, not an idiosyncratic thinker, isolated along with a few enthusiastic followers from the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. With Russell, Whitehead participated in the same philosophical world that gave rise to analytic philosophy.

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SUNY Press

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0887069886

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From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

By: Giora Hon,Bernard R. Goldstein

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From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

By: Giora Hon,Bernard R. Goldstein

Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact exists. The demand is as easy to make as it is impossible to satisfy. But the true test of an hypothesis, if it cannot be shown to con?ict with known truths, is the number of facts that it correlates and explains. Francis M. Cornford [1914] 1934, 220. It was in the autumn of 1997 that the research project leading to this publication began. One of us [GH], while a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh), gave a talk entitled, “Proportions and Identity: The Aesthetic Aspect of Symmetry”. The presentation focused on a confusion s- rounding the concept of symmetry: it exhibits unity, yet it is often claimed to reveal a form of beauty, namely, harmony, which requires a variety of elements. In the audience was the co-author of this book [BRG] who responded with enthusiasm, seeking to extend the discussion of this issue to historical sources in earlier periods. A preliminary search of the literature persuaded us that the history of symmetry was rich in possibilities for new insights into the making of concepts. John Roche’s brief essay (1987), in which he sketched the broad outlines of the history of this concept, was particularly helpful, and led us to conclude that the subject was worthy of monographic treatment.

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337

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Springer Science & Business Media

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140208448X

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Late Roman Army

By: Karen R. Dixon,Pat Southern

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Late Roman Army

By: Karen R. Dixon,Pat Southern

Using a full range of original literary sources, modern Continental scholarship, and current archaeological research, Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon provide a stimulating overview of the historical period, the critical changes in the army, and the way these changes affected the morale of the soldiers.

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353

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Routledge

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1134724292

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Explaining Creativity

The Science of Human Innovation

By: R. Keith Sawyer

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Explaining Creativity

The Science of Human Innovation

By: R. Keith Sawyer

Explaining Creativity is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of scientific studies on creativity and innovation. Sawyer discusses not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists' research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain.

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OUP USA

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0199737576

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The Harper & Row Reader

Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing

By: Paul R. Gregory,Marshall W. Gregory,Wayne C. Booth

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The Harper & Row Reader

Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing

By: Paul R. Gregory,Marshall W. Gregory,Wayne C. Booth

Teaching writing, critical thinking, and argument, this popular reader features more than 100 thought-provoking selections written by some of history's classic thinkers.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0060408405

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Book's by R G. COLLINGWOOD

Histories and Fallacies

Histories and Fallacies

Reflections on the Practice of Physics

Reflections on the Practice of Physics

Fabricating History

Fabricating History

The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

Late Roman Army

Late Roman Army

Explaining Creativity

Explaining Creativity

The Harper & Row Reader

The Harper & Row Reader

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