Oreskes, Naomi (Author)
Science in Context
Volume: 26, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 595-609
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Approaches, Styles, and Narratives: Reflections on Doing History of Science”
Language: English
Both geologists and historians study the past, but they have divergent views of the present. Geologists are unambiguously presentist. They believe that the observable present is a crucial resource in understanding the past, because in the observable present we can see and study the processes that have occurred in the unobservable past. For geologists, it is largely uncontroversial that the past not only can but should be interpreted with reference to the present.
...MoreDescription On the difference between geologists' and historians' views of the past.
Article Harman, Oren (2013) Introduction: “Right as Diverse Pathes Leden”. Science in Context (pp. 553-555).
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