The essays in this area are concerned with history and historiography, including essays on significant issues in the history of ideas. The focus is on the philosophy of history and how philosophy can help illuminate or hinder the study of history and what we can know about the past.
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The Manuscripts
The Hermetica—or the collection of mystical teachings that form the basis of Hermeticism—was traditionally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus: "thrice-greatest Hermes", the Egyptian god Thoth, who…
Keith Whitelam's paper Representing Minimalism: The Rhetoric and Reality of Revisionism is found in a festschrift for Robert Carroll, Sense and Sensitivity. In the early…Philosophy has always been involved in archaeology. This is an argument we will develop by considering the so-called New Archaeology and the debates surrounding it…In the most simplistic of terms, religion is an attempt to discuss the nature of the universe with thoughts of a Deity being central. Science…
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