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Psychology as a Historical Science

Annual Review of Psychology, 2021
Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that the roots of cross-cultural variation often lie in the past.
Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Henrich, Edward Slingerland   +2 more
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Science as (Historical) Narrative

Erkenntnis, 2011
The traditional mode of explanation in physics via deduction from partial differential equations is contrasted here with explanation via simulations. I argue that the different technologies employed constitute different languages, which support different sorts of narratives.
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Science and Religion as Historical Traditions

2022
This chapter investigates the conditions for dialogue between science and religion, and asks what makes dialogue possible or desirable. Sometimes, dialogue has simply amounted to theology and religion accommodating themselves to the sciences, and this can serve to reinforce unhelpful ways of categorising science and religion.
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Science, Historicity and Complexity

2015
In this contribution the author intends to reconstruct Evandro Agazzi’s reflections on the development of contemporary science after the elaboration of the Theory of Systems and the emergence of the perspective of Complexity. Reflections that convinced him that Reality is historical and that, in order to understand it, an interdisciplinary approach and
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Historical Science and the Digitalization

2021
The purpose of the article is to critically analyze and generalize the historiographical material devoted to the study of the process of gradual introduction of mathematical methods, methods of informatization and digitalization, computer technology into the everyday life of one of the most humanitarian sciences—history.
Sergey P. Kostrikov, Alexandr A. Iliyuhov, Elena V. Kryukova   +2 more
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Science Education in the Historical Study of the Sciences

2013
Historians of science have treated the history of primary, secondary, tertiary, and popular science education, although overall the collective scholarship on these issues remains sparse in comparison to other topics in the history of science. Guided at first by the conceptual frameworks of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault, this literature has moved ...
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Is cosmology a historical science?

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2012
To explain the formation and the evolution of the Universe, cosmology settles universal laws. In this respect, cosmology belongs to the category of the nomothetic sciences, which write and think in mathematics. But cosmology is also akin to the historical sciences; like archaeology, geology or the biology of evolution, cosmology infers history from the
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Theory in the Historical Sciences

1982
The present essay discusses the use of theory in history: It outlines the stimuli which have led to a growing application of theory in West German historiography of the last two decades. It also discusses old and new objections against the use of theory in the writing of history, including most recent developments (Alltagsgeschichte).
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History, Historicity and Science

2016
Contents: Introduction, Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis The concepts of physics: rational contents and constructions in history, Michel Paty Theory-change and the logic of enquiry: new bearings in philosophy of science, Christopher Norris Science, history, and philosophy in Kant and Hegel, Angelica Nuzzo Historicity, social psychology and change, Rom ...
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