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an optimist's guide to the historical sciences
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Tooth of the Platypus; 1.1 A Dress Rehearsal; 1.2 The Argument of the Book; 1.3 The Book's Structure; 2 Snowballs and Sauropods; 2.1 Sauropod Gigantism; 2.2 Snowball Earth; 2.3 Moving Forward ...; 3 Traces; 3.1 The Notion of a "Trace"; 3.2 Dependency Relationships; 3.3 O. tharalkooschild Redux; 4 Over and Under; 4.1 Overdetermination; 4.2 Underdetermination; 5 Ripples; 5.1 The Ripple Model of Evidence; 5.2 Unlucky Circumstances; 6 The Main Business of Historical Science; 6.1 Common-Cause Explanations; 6.2 Consilience; 6.3 Coherency Testing
6.4 Methodological Omnivory6.5 The Material Remains of Spiritual Life; 7 Parochialism and Analogy; 7.1 Parochialism; 7.2 Analogy; 8 Exquisite Corpse: Historicity and Analogy; 7.1 Sensitivity to Initial Conditions and Path Dependence; 8.2 An Advantage and a Cost; 8.3 All the Better to Eat You With: Thylacosmilus atrox; 8.4 Good News, Bad News; 9 How to Build Sea Urchins and Manufacture Smoking Guns; 9.1 How to Build a Sea Urchin; 9.2 How to Manufacture Smoking Guns; 9.3 Alternative Readings; 10 Idealization and Historical Knowledge; 10.1 Surrogate "Experiments"
10.2 The Purpose of Idealization10.3 Investigative Scaffolding; 11 Optimism, Speculation, and the Future of the Past; 11.1 Pessimism?; 11.2 Betting on the Future of the Past; 11.3 Empirically Grounded Speculation; 12 Promoting Success in Historical Science: The Why and the How; 12.1 Chance of Success; 12.2 Exploratory Research; 12.3 Indirect Epistemic Benefit; 13 P.S.: A Note on Progress and Realism; 13.1 It's Not a March but a Mess, but It's Progress; 13.2 Against Realism and Antirealism; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9
Chapter 10Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology