What is Cognitive Historiography, Anyway? Method, Theory, and a Cross-Disciplinary Decalogue
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.38759Keywords:
cognitive historiography, cognition, cross-disciplinary integration, evolution, history, interdisciplinary collaborationAbstract
This contribution offers a tentative systemization of different strands of method and theory in the sub-field of cognitive historiography in the form of a decalogue and 30 reflections. The primary aim is to clarify the role of both interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-disciplinary integration. The secondary goal is to provide interested readers, colleagues, and young researchers from a wide range of different academic branches across the two cultures with a crash course and a protocol to basic collaborative research. An indicative and essential bibliography is also provided. This introductory opinion piece is open for further comments, additions, suggestions, and discussions.
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Martin, L. H., and J. Sørensen, eds. 2011. Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315478371
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O’Rourke, M., S. Crowley and C. Gonnerman. 2016. “On the Nature of Cross-disciplinary Integration: A Philosophical Framework”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 56: 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.10.003
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Petersen, A. K. et al. eds. 2018. Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Pigliucci, M., and M. Boudry, eds. 2013. Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226051826.001.0001
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Plotkin, H. 2004. Evolutionary Thought in Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Scheidel, W. 2014. “Evolutionary Psychology and the Historian”. The American Historical Review 119(5): 1563–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.5.1563
Shermer, M., and A. Grobman. 2009. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Updated and Expanded. Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA and London: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/16.2.321
Shettleworth. S. J. 2010. Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior. Second Edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Shryock, A., and D. L. Smail, eds. 2011. Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present. Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA and London: University of California Press.
Slingerland, E., and M. Collard, eds. 2012. Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Smail, D. L. 2008. On Deep History and the Brain. Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA and London: University of California Press.
Sørensen, J. 2004. “Religion, Evolution and an Immunology of Cultural Systems. Evolution and Cognition 10(1): 61-73.
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2019-10-14
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Ambasciano, L. (2019). What is Cognitive Historiography, Anyway? Method, Theory, and a Cross-Disciplinary Decalogue. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 4(2), 136-150. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.38759
