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Author:   Dr Aviezer Tucker (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) ,  Dr David Cernín (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.931kg
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9781350409194

ISBN 10:   1350409197
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   18 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part One - Historiographies Written Large 1. The Historical Sciences Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) 2. Philosophy of Big History David Cernín (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) 3. Global History 4. Total History 5. Environmental History 6. Natural History James McAllister (University of Leiden, Netherlands) 7. Universal History Georg Gangl (University of Oulo, Finland) 8. Philosophies of History Naif Al Bidh (American University in the Emirates, UAE) Part Two - Ontology and Epistemology of the Historical Sciences 9. Information and the Historical Sciences 10. Origins Aviezer Tucker (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) 11. Entropy and the End of History 12. The Ontology of the Past Adam Timmins (University of York, UK) 13. Experiments and Prediction in the Historical Sciences Thomas Rossetter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) 14. Determination, Over-determination, Under-determination Efraim Wallach (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) 15. Historical Counterfactuals Veli Virmajoki (University of Turku, Finland) 16. Historical Necessity vs. Contingency (Gould vs. Dworkin) Alexander Maar (State University of Londrina, Brazil) 17. Historical Emergent Order/Patterns Part Three - The Synthetic Historical Sciences 18. Languages, Archaeology, DNA 19. The History of Life: Evo-Devo Synthesis 20. The First Three Minutes 21. The Philosophy of Technology and Big History Marco Tamborini (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Part Four - The Special Historical Sciences and their (Converging) Methodologies 22. Cosmology Jamee Elder (Harvard University, USA) 23. Geology 24. Phylogeny Kirk Fitzhugh (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA) 25. Evolutionary Biology Michal Hubálek (University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic) 26. Archaeology Ahmet Dincer Cevik (Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey) 27. Human History and Pre-history 28. Comparative Historical Philology 29. Textual Criticism 30. Historical Pseudo-science Index

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Philosophers of science have paid far too little attention to investigations of the deep past, and philosophers of history to the methodologically omnivorous, interdisciplinary beast that the study of human pasts has become. This collected volume finally put both discussions firmly on the map by pulling together work from philosophers and scientists, covering everything from the universe’s first few seconds to just about yesterday. It’s About Time. * Adrian Currie, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Egenis, University of Exeter, UK * The essays in this volume are from individuals with diverse philosophical orientations. Taken together, they will help readers appreciate the rich multi-dimensionality of philosophy of the historical sciences. * Elliot Sober, William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA * Drawing on state-of-the-art ontology and epistemology, the editors and authors succeed impressively in deepening our understanding of the ‘long’ past, while avoiding to fall back into pseudoscientific speculation à la Herder, Hegel, or Spengler. The wide-ranging handbook can be recommended across disciplines to anyone interested in ‘deep time’ and the prospects of a scientific historiography. * Dr. Oliver R. Scholz, Professor, University of Muenster, Germany *

Philosophers of science have paid far too little attention to investigations of the deep past, and philosophers of history to the methodologically omnivorous, interdisciplinary beast that the study of human pasts has become. This collected volume finally put both discussions firmly on the map by pulling together work from philosophers and scientists, covering everything from the universe’s first few seconds to just about yesterday. It’s About Time. * Adrian Currie, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Egenis, University of Exeter, UK *

Author Information

Aviezer Tucker is the Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His publications include Historiographic Reasoning (2024) and Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (2004), as well as numerous articles and reviews about the philosophy of historiography and the philosophy of science. He also edited A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography (2009). He taught or held research positions at the Central European University, Palacky University, Columbia University, New York University, Trinity College, Long Island University, the Australian National University, Queens University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the University of Cologne, the University of Texas in Austin, and Harvard University. David Cernín is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and a member of the university’s Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography. He has published on topics including historical realism and anti-realism, intellectual history, and history education. His most recent co-authored book, History Education between Science and Narration (published in Czech as Dejepis mezi vedou a vyprávením), was published in 2023 and partly explored the educational potential of Big History.

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