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Empiricism and History

Empiricism and History

Davies, Stephen
Davies, Glyn Ed
Davies, Rob

Paperback

Series: Theory and History, Book 3

Historiography

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ISBN10: 0333964705
ISBN13: 9780333964705
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 1 2003
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
The central doctrine of empiricism - that true knowledge or understanding of the world comes ultimately from sense impressions - underlies most of the practices and arguments of professional historians, but many historians have denied that there is a theory behind what they do. In the last twenty years, however, postmodernism has had a powerful effect on the discipline of history and is now forcing empiricist historians to articulate their methods, and to defend them as both possible and virtuous. In this concise introduction, Stephen Davies explains what historians mean by empiricism, examines the origins, growth and persistence of empirical methods, and shows how students can apply these methods to their own work.

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