List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - History is not What it Used to Be, Aviezer Tucker and Davd Cernín, both University of Ostrava, Czechia
Part One: The scopes of History and historiography
Philosophy of Big History, David Cernín, University of Ostrava, Czechia
Big History - history, science, or 'other'?, Brian Villmoare, University of Nevada, USA
Natural History, James W. McAllister, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
More-than-Human History, Marek Tamm, Tallinn University, Estonia and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Bielefeld University, Germany
Epistemic and Ontological Divide between Human History and Prehistory, David Cernín, University of Ostrava, Czechia
Global History in Historiography, Q. Edward Wang, Rowan University, USA
Universal History, Georg Gangl, University of Ostrava, Czechia
The Necessity of Speculation: A Comparison of Big History & Speculative Philosophy of History, Naif Al Bidh, University of Keele, UK
Part Two: Ontology and Epistemology of History
The Ontology of the Past, Adam Timmins, University of Ostrava, Czechia
The Originary Sciences, Aviezer Tucker, University of Ostrava, Czechia
Historical Necessity vs. Contingency, Alexander Maar, State University of Amapá, Brazil
Determination, overdetermination, and underdetermination in the historical sciences, Efraim Wallach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science, Thomas Rossetter, Durham University, UK
Counterfactuals, Alexander Maar, State University of Amapá, Brazil
The End of History: Bang, or Whimper?, Matthew Slaboch, Arizona State University, USA
Deep Time in Pseudoscience and Pseudo-History, Ronald H. Fritze, Athens State University, USA
Part Three: The philosophies of the Special Historical Sciences
On the Synthesis of Historical Linguistics and Cognate Disciplines, Frank Cabrera, University of Arkansas, USA
Textual Criticism, Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Geology: The Philosophy of Geology as History of This and Other Worlds, Daniel Swaim, Marquette University, USA
Evolutionary Biology, David C. Krakauer and Douglas Erwin, both Santa Fe Institute, USA
Systematics: Inference of the Biological Past, Kirk Fitzhugh, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA
Philosophy of Archaeology, Dinçer Çevik, Mugla Sitki Koçman University, Turkey
Astronomy, Cosmology, and the Distant Past, Jamee Elder, Tufts University, USA
The First Three Minutes: Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, Siyu Yao, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
The Philosophy and Theory of Environmental History, Esa Ruuskanen and Kari Väyrynen, both University of Oulu, Finland
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