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IB History - Theory of Knowledge - The Epistemological Fragility of History

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Lecture on our Post-modern obsession with the past. A consideration of the difference between the 'past' and 'history'. 

 

The PowerPoint slides which accompanied the lecture. 

Further Reading David Lowenthal's The Past is a Foreign Country.

Lecture on why the Historian's claims to the know the truth are weaker than claims of scientists and other social sciences. The PowerPoint slides which accompanied the lecture.

This recent (2002 and quite challenging) article by Alun Munslow is a good summary of recent philosophical reflection on the nature of history.

Further Reading - Library and History Department  have copies of Keith Jenkin's Rethinking History.