History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the FutureThe book reexamines this long held belief, and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same time, the book asserts that futurists should not view the future as a scientist might--aiming for predictions and certainties--but rather should view the future in the same way that an historian views the past. |
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... discipline , such as the logic , validity , truth , and objectivity of historical statements . An- alytic ... disciplines the identification of general laws is an explicit goal . It should come as no sur- prise , then , that social ...
... discipline , such as the logic , validity , truth , and objectivity of historical statements . An- alytic ... disciplines the identification of general laws is an explicit goal . It should come as no sur- prise , then , that social ...
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... disciplines , from engineering , or , more recently , from the social sciences . The modern interest in futurism has long been asso- ciated with science , specifically with the values of prediction and control that science has promised ...
... disciplines , from engineering , or , more recently , from the social sciences . The modern interest in futurism has long been asso- ciated with science , specifically with the values of prediction and control that science has promised ...
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... discipline practiced in the mind , in the imagination . Much of the training of an historian involves disciplin- ing ... disciplined enactment of the future in our minds . The chapter will explore how we can imagine the unreal , and will ...
... discipline practiced in the mind , in the imagination . Much of the training of an historian involves disciplin- ing ... disciplined enactment of the future in our minds . The chapter will explore how we can imagine the unreal , and will ...
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... disciplines such as music , economics , and mathematics for analogies for thinking about entities that are " real " only in our minds ( economists , for example , imagine a perfect market , mathematicians reason about " imaginary ...
... disciplines such as music , economics , and mathematics for analogies for thinking about entities that are " real " only in our minds ( economists , for example , imagine a perfect market , mathematicians reason about " imaginary ...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2010 |
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