Historical sciences like paleontology and archaeology have uncovered unimagined,
remarkable and mysterious worlds in the deep past. How should we understand the success …

The analytical notions of 'thought style','paradigm','episteme'and 'style of reasoning'are some
of the most popular frameworks in the history and philosophy of science. Although their …

I develop an account of the relationship between aesthetics and knowledge, focusing on
scientific practice. Cognitivists infer from 'partial sensitivity'—aesthetic appreciation partly …

Paleobiologists (and other historical scientists) often provide simple narratives to explain
complex, contingent episodes. These narratives are sometimes 'one-shot hypotheses' which …

The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in
the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite …

Philosophy of history is an integral part of historiography and historiography is a
reconstruction process carried out by humans from their curiosity about historical events …

Early modern experimental philosophers often appear to commit to and utilise corpuscular
and mechanical hypotheses. This is somewhat mysterious, for such hypotheses frequently …

We defend a realist account of history: past facts are discoveries not creations. We show
how 'moderate'realists, who admit the critical role of perspective, while insisting on history's …

In this paper, I analyze how frameworks shape historiographical explanations. I argue that,
in order to identify a sequence of events as relevant to a historical outcome, assumptions …

Significant work in the philosophy of history has focused on the writing of historiographical
narratives, isolated from the rest of what historians do. Taking my cue from the philosophy of …