History
Knowledge of the human past built from traces that survive by accident as much as by design. History is unusual in that its object cannot be observed or repeated, so its claims rest on the interpretation of evidence produced by people with their own purposes.
Through the knowledge framework
Knowledge questions
- 01What questions can this area of knowledge answer that no other can?
- 02Can a discipline be about something that cannot be observed?
Knowledge questions
- 01Whose questions has this discipline historically taken seriously?
- 02How does a discipline resolve disagreement among its own practitioners?
- 03What is lost when a perspective is absent from a body of knowledge?
Knowledge questions
- 01What can a discipline's methods not detect, even in principle?
- 02What assumptions does a method build in before it is applied?
Knowledge questions
- 01What does a practitioner owe when communicating uncertainty?
- 02Does a discipline's responsibility end when its findings are published?