Telling the Truth about History"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist |
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... philosophical stance. Since the Greeks, a certain amount of skepticism about truth claims has been essential to the search for truth; skepticism can encourage people to learn more and remain open to the possibility of their own errors ...
... philosophical stance. Since the Greeks, a certain amount of skepticism about truth claims has been essential to the search for truth; skepticism can encourage people to learn more and remain open to the possibility of their own errors ...
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... philosophers. The aims of this book are simple and straightforward but also ambitious: to provide readers with some sense of history's relationship to scientific truth, objectivity, postmodernism, and the politics of identity within a ...
... philosophers. The aims of this book are simple and straightforward but also ambitious: to provide readers with some sense of history's relationship to scientific truth, objectivity, postmodernism, and the politics of identity within a ...
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... philosophers, censors, and metaphysicians, not to mention magicians, astrologers, and alchemists. One of the earliest histories of science survives from the 1750s in a set of scientific lectures given to aristocratic gentlemen and ...
... philosophers, censors, and metaphysicians, not to mention magicians, astrologers, and alchemists. One of the earliest histories of science survives from the 1750s in a set of scientific lectures given to aristocratic gentlemen and ...
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... philosophers had laid the groundwork for the Principia. Scientists such as Galileo, who had approached nature as a mechanism, as bodies moved only because impelled or repelled by other bodies, prefigured Newton's ideas. Galileo and his ...
... philosophers had laid the groundwork for the Principia. Scientists such as Galileo, who had approached nature as a mechanism, as bodies moved only because impelled or repelled by other bodies, prefigured Newton's ideas. Galileo and his ...
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... philosophies taught by the clergy who controlled the French universities. Illustrated on its title page by a peasant ... philosophers and theologians, Descartes proclaimed that “a practical philosophy can be found by which...we thereby ...
... philosophies taught by the clergy who controlled the French universities. Illustrated on its title page by a peasant ... philosophers and theologians, Descartes proclaimed that “a practical philosophy can be found by which...we thereby ...
Contents
History Makes a Nation | |
Competing Histories of America | |
Discovering the Clay Feet of Science | |
Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity | |
Truth and Objectivity | |
The Future of History | |
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Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
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