The Meaning of Evolution and the Evolution of Meaning.
A major lesson to be learned from narrativist philosophy of history since Danto is that history and science differ in the organization and presentation of knowledge rather than in their subject-matter. This insight is most often seen as a decisive argument in favour of the 'literary' or 'cultural' c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 243 - 265 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2014
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