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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... narratives or stories . Both a history and a future scenario are specific ways of using language that share many common properties . This argument represents an important break with past efforts to think about the relationship between ...
... narratives or stories . Both a history and a future scenario are specific ways of using language that share many common properties . This argument represents an important break with past efforts to think about the relationship between ...
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... narration of the past . " In order to help clarify his analysis of the philosophy of history , Michael Stanford found it useful to denote the word for " the past " as history1 , and the word for " the narration of the past " as historyZ ...
... narration of the past . " In order to help clarify his analysis of the philosophy of history , Michael Stanford found it useful to denote the word for " the past " as history1 , and the word for " the narration of the past " as historyZ ...
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... narration of the past and the epistemological foundations of those narratives . For much of the twentieth century , analytic philosophers were divided into two camps : positivists and idealists . Positivists maintain that history is no ...
... narration of the past and the epistemological foundations of those narratives . For much of the twentieth century , analytic philosophers were divided into two camps : positivists and idealists . Positivists maintain that history is no ...
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... narrative a historian might compose is a representation of the past , and is not the same thing as what it represents.8 That is , history2 is not history 1. As a result , the linguis- tic choices one employs in creating history2 have ...
... narrative a historian might compose is a representation of the past , and is not the same thing as what it represents.8 That is , history2 is not history 1. As a result , the linguis- tic choices one employs in creating history2 have ...
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... narrative about future1 . Futurel and future? are not the same , as is the case with his- tory! and history2 ; these distinctions will be important for the analysis that is to follow . I would like to argue here that futurel , like ...
... narrative about future1 . Futurel and future? are not the same , as is the case with his- tory! and history2 ; these distinctions will be important for the analysis that is to follow . I would like to argue here that futurel , like ...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2010 |
History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2006 |
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