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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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Sociology as a historical science

The American Sociologist, 2006
In a meditation on geology?a profoundly historical if not human science?Stephen Jay Gould (1987) explored the tension between two imageries of time: time's arrow and time's cycle. Time's arrow embodies our sense of grand history, history with a capital "H." But its structure is largely prior to scientific inquiry, rooted in a culturally-given sense of ...
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Reductionism in a Historical Science

Philosophy of Science, 2001
Reductionism is a metaphysical thesis, a claim about explanations, and a research program. The metaphysical thesis reductionists advance (and antireductionists accept) is that all facts, including all biological facts, are fixed by the physical and chemical facts; there are no non-physical events, states, or processes, and so biological events, states ...
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Semiotics and the Historical Sciences

1991
Lotman says that the science of history has been caught in an unfortunate position between the description of Hegel’s idealism of the logical movement of history through great events on the one hand and the new school’s picture of immobile history rooted in the practice and mentality of the collective on the other.
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THE HISTORICAL AIMS OF SCIENCE

British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2002
(2002). THE HISTORICAL AIMS OF SCIENCE. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 277-288.
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Historical Memory and Historical Science

2022
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TIME IN HISTORICAL SCIENCE

2023
Carol E. Cleland, Joseph Wilson
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Testing times: regularities in the historical sciences

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2008
Ben Jeffares
exaly  

Settler colonial incorporation and inheritance: historical sciences, indigeneity, and settler narratives in post-WWII Taiwan

Settler Colonial Studies, 2018
Tomonori Sugimoto
exaly