History and science in anthropology

Philosophy of Science 25 (1):59-70 (1958)
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The basic issues which this paper will be concerned with are: how has history been defined, what has been asked about history, and what sort of answers have been found. These questions may also be stated as: what is the nature of historical theory and how do different theories affect what may “be done” with history.

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10.1086/287577

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The logic of explanation in anthropology.S. T. Goh - 1970 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 13 (1-4):339 – 359.

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The function of general laws in history.Carl Gustav Hempel - 1942 - Journal of Philosophy 39 (2):35-48.
So-called social science.A. L. Kroeber - 1936 - Journal of Social Philosophy and Jurisprudence 1 (4):317.

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