The plot thickens
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History is facing a crisis of identity as historians begin to challenge the method of empirical observation that has long sustained it as a discipline. American Renaissance historian Hayden White set off a time bomb in 1974 when he argued that historical narratives are verbal fictions which have more in common with their literature than with science. History is a narrative of the past which is not only about factual statements but about the historian's imagination. However this does not mean that truths cannot be conveyed through fiction.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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The search for a grain of truth in a pile of rice
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The unpredictability of history and the reasons for sudden upheavals appear to be inexplicable, but physics could provide the answer. The examination of the physics of a pile of rice could reveal an understanding of these unpredictable historical events.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2000
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Is time merely the measure by which we fall apart?
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Issues concerning the understanding of the notion of time are discussed, with focus on the direction of time and explanations of the way no which the universe reached its initial state. Particular attention is given to the history of ideas about time.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2001
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