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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... philosopher Kate Brady helped me to think through the idea of inference and pointed me to many useful resources . David Kimmel , in the English de- partment , first asked me about the role of imagination in history , which led to many ...
... philosopher Kate Brady helped me to think through the idea of inference and pointed me to many useful resources . David Kimmel , in the English de- partment , first asked me about the role of imagination in history , which led to many ...
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... philosophers of history about the nature of representa- tion in history , and especially the role of language in representing the past , " History , like poetry and song , " according to the philosopher and historian Michael Stanford ...
... philosophers of history about the nature of representa- tion in history , and especially the role of language in representing the past , " History , like poetry and song , " according to the philosopher and historian Michael Stanford ...
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... Philosophers of history might be distinguished by which connotation of the word " history " interests them most . The older speculative philosophy of history was concerned with history1 , that is with the patterns in the structure of ...
... Philosophers of history might be distinguished by which connotation of the word " history " interests them most . The older speculative philosophy of history was concerned with history1 , that is with the patterns in the structure of ...
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... philosophers of history do not typically en- gage in careful analysis of primary - source evidence , and are often accused of twisting the " facts " of the past in order to fit these more readily into their conceptual schema . Such ...
... philosophers of history do not typically en- gage in careful analysis of primary - source evidence , and are often accused of twisting the " facts " of the past in order to fit these more readily into their conceptual schema . Such ...
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... philosophers ; in fact , we might pe- riodize the current " postmodern challenge " as being part of the larger history of analytic approaches to the philosophy of history . Like the concerns of the analytic philosophers , postmodern ...
... philosophers ; in fact , we might pe- riodize the current " postmodern challenge " as being part of the larger history of analytic approaches to the philosophy of history . Like the concerns of the analytic philosophers , postmodern ...
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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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