Out of Their Depths: “Moral Kinds” and the Interpretation of Evidence in Foucault's Modern Episteme

Michel Foucault's The Order of Things is uniquely relevant to historians because it is about the contradictions of writing history in the present day, and because it makes claims absent from other books often seen as similar, such as Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. F...

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Main Author: Stark, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley [2016]
In: History and theory
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 131-147
Further subjects:B Kuhn
B human experiment
B Paradigm
B historical method
B override
B Hacking
B The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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