Hypothesis Testing and Knowledge of the Human Past

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sav.sk/index.php?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=38626" target="_blank" >https://www.sav.sk/index.php?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=38626</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32203" target="_blank" >10.31577/orgf.2025.32203</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Hypothesis Testing and Knowledge of the Human Past

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Historians and natural scientists are adept at inferring knowledge of the past from present traces and evidence. The repository of available methods has been rapidly expanding, and historians of the human past have learned that using techniques developed in other fields that study the natural past might prove beneficial to their endeavours in some cases. The network of inferences involved in historical discourse is vast and diverse. Influential philosophers of history and historical sciences like Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen and Aviezer Tucker have argued that it is necessary to expand the scope of the philosophy of history and to take a deeper look at underlying reasoning and inferential structure of history. This paper answers this call by analysing a group of inferences in human historiography that could be described in terms of hypothesis and hypothesis testing. Hypothesis testing has received some attention in the philosophy of historical sciences, but it is mostly underexplored in the philosophy of history in the context of human history. The paper examines four case studies and analyses their inferential structures by using concepts from the philosophy of historical sciences, such as trace-based and analogous reasoning, type/token distinction, etc. It will be shown that hypothesis testing helps generate knowledge about the past, but to fully appreciate it and to differentiate its types, philosophers of history must engage with the infrastructure of historical research.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Hypothesis Testing and Knowledge of the Human Past

Popis výsledku anglicky

Historians and natural scientists are adept at inferring knowledge of the past from present traces and evidence. The repository of available methods has been rapidly expanding, and historians of the human past have learned that using techniques developed in other fields that study the natural past might prove beneficial to their endeavours in some cases. The network of inferences involved in historical discourse is vast and diverse. Influential philosophers of history and historical sciences like Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen and Aviezer Tucker have argued that it is necessary to expand the scope of the philosophy of history and to take a deeper look at underlying reasoning and inferential structure of history. This paper answers this call by analysing a group of inferences in human historiography that could be described in terms of hypothesis and hypothesis testing. Hypothesis testing has received some attention in the philosophy of historical sciences, but it is mostly underexplored in the philosophy of history in the context of human history. The paper examines four case studies and analyses their inferential structures by using concepts from the philosophy of historical sciences, such as trace-based and analogous reasoning, type/token distinction, etc. It will be shown that hypothesis testing helps generate knowledge about the past, but to fully appreciate it and to differentiate its types, philosophers of history must engage with the infrastructure of historical research.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-05800S" target="_blank" >GA23-05800S: Velká historie a její filozofický potenciál</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Organon F

ISSN

1335-0668

e-ISSN

2585-7150

Svazek periodika

—

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

168-192

Kód UT WoS článku

001509115800003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105009279846