Causal and Symbolic Understanding in Historical Epistemology.
The term 'historical epistemology' can be read in two different ways: (1) as referring to a program of 'historicizing' epistemology, in the sense of a critique of traditional epistemology's tendency to gloss over historical context, or (2) as a manifesto of 'epistemologizing' history, i.e. as a crit...
| Published in: | Erkenntnis Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 467 - 483 |
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Nov2011
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