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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... tion of me , the logic and rigor of the argument presented here would surely have been poorer . I certainly hope that my students at Heidelberg learned historical thinking in all of my classes , and I thank them for helping me to ...
... tion of me , the logic and rigor of the argument presented here would surely have been poorer . I certainly hope that my students at Heidelberg learned historical thinking in all of my classes , and I thank them for helping me to ...
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... 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 , " is a way of using language . " Because it is fashioned ...
... 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 , " is a way of using language . " Because it is fashioned ...
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... tion of speculative approaches , philosophers of history in the twentieth cen- tury became more interested in the analytic philosophy of history . This branch of philosophy studies the more " technical " issues of the discipline , such ...
... tion of speculative approaches , philosophers of history in the twentieth cen- tury became more interested in the analytic philosophy of history . This branch of philosophy studies the more " technical " issues of the discipline , such ...
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... . In the same way we can distinguish between the past and the representa- tion of the past , so can we distinguish between the future and the represen- tation of the future . Again , for simplicity's sake 6 2 Introduction.
... . In the same way we can distinguish between the past and the representa- tion of the past , so can we distinguish between the future and the represen- tation of the future . Again , for simplicity's sake 6 2 Introduction.
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