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Subject(s)

• Munz, Peter 1921- [Browse]
• History—Philosophy [Browse]
• Historiography [Browse]
• Knowledge, Theory of [Browse]

Related name

• Fairburn, Miles [Browse]
• Oliver, W. H. (William Hosking), 1925- [Browse]
• Munz, Peter, 1921- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Festschriften [Browse]

Summary note

"Essays ... written by Peter Munz's friends and colleagues to celebrate his 75th birthday ... themes ... [include] history, the philosophy of history, the philosophy of science and the problems of knowledge ... reflect[ing] ... Munz's intellectual interests and achievements"--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-365).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Personal memoirs (A personal tribute / J.L. Roberts
• Petrus contra mundum / W.H. Oliver
• The tennis court oath / Harvey Franklin
• Ourselves when young / John O'Shea
• Stages of the symbol / Paul Hoffmann)
• History (Cassian : monastery & world / Philip Rousseau
• The peace of silence : Thucydides & the English Civil War / Jonathan H. Scott
• Enthusiasm : the antiself of enlightenment / J.G.A. Pocock
• Historical method and Waitangi Tribunal claims / Alan Ward)
• Historiography (Backing into modernity : the dilemma of Richard Hooker / J.C. Davis
• "The debate, at heart, is about evolution" / Derek Freeman
• Visco's New science & New Zealand history / R.J. Tristram)
• Epistemology (On Popperian pillars: the relationship between the thought of Munz & Popper / Friedel Weinert
• The marriage of design and selection in the evolution of cultural artefacts / John Ziman
• Peter Munz and the scourge of relativism / I.C. Jarvie.
• On the true and marvellous adventures of the Baron von Munzhausen in the lands of truth and falsity / Peter J. Wilson
• Self-conscious belief / Anthony O'Hear)

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ISBN

086473302X

LCCN

^^^96207712^

OCLC

36327874

RCP

H - S

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