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Rethinking Historical Epistemology

2015
IN AN INTERVIEW ON MAGICAL REALISM, Salman Rushdie acknowledges, quite astonished, that his novels are regarded as works of magical realism in the West, whereas in India they are treated as historical texts.1 This dichotomy between history and literature is central to the analysis of the relationship between Diasporic Marvellous Realism and the ...
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Historical and epistemological perspectives on research and nursing

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1994
This paper examines four main themes with respect to some problematic issues concerning the discipline of nursing, nursing scholarship and the social sciences First, attention is directed to the controversial issues concerning nursing's search for a knowledge base Second, a historical context is provided by drawing attention to some key developments ...
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Naturalism, pragmatism and historical epistemology

Philosophical Inquiries, 2021
Historical Epistemology is a discipline that draws on quite distinct sources, straddling the analytic-continental divide within the history and philosophy of science. In this paper, I examine the analytic side of the equation, namely the tradition of empiricist naturalism, and the emergence, within the work of Goodman, Kuhn and Hacking, of naturalized ...
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Historical‐Epistemological Context

2002
AbstractSets out the epistemological context for my enquiry, by outlining the key moves in a formative phase of its historical development: the writings of Descartes, Locke, Hume, Reid, and Kant. My purpose here is not to engage in the detailed exegesis and interpretation of these philosophers’ views, but to delineate the space of live options in the ...
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Elements of a Historical Epistemology of Space (TOPOI – Towards a Historical Epistemology of Space)

2013
The essay presents an outline of a historical epistemology of space in the sense of a developmental theory of forms of spatial thinking. Starting with the natural conditions of spatial cognition through to concepts of space imposed by advanced disciplinary science, manifestations of spatial thinking in different cultures and historical epochs are ...
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The historical epistemology of empathy

Abstract Recent interest in the concept of empathy in psychology, psychiatry, and neurosciences has highlighted the confusion around the meaning and nature of the concept and the phenomena it captures. When empirical research impacts on clinical care, it becomes particularly important to understand the concept and the factors shaping ...
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The Challenge of a Historical Epistemology of Space

2015
The chapter introduces the program of a historical epistemology of space and discusses the relation of the historical development of knowledge to its phylogenetic and ontogenetic developments. The chapter further provides an overview on the remaining chapters of the book.
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Stephen Gaukroger and the Neutrality of Historical Epistemology

In this short essay I reflect on Stephen Gaukroger’s enterprise especially aspresented in the four-volume study on science and the shaping of modernity,and ask if it is a version of historical epistemology. Because the Gaukrogerianproject is (deliberately?) ambiguous when it comes to choosing between thesafe neutrality of the study of science, and the ...
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“Changing” one's mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology

Metaphilosophy, 2023
Massimiliano Simons
exaly  

A non-epistemological history of historical epistemology

Metascience, 2010
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