Peter Turchin – Julia Galef
Peter Turchin is a historian, an author, and a social scientist. Julia Galef is an interview host, an author, and a philosopher. We found 1 podcast interview connecting Peter Turchin and Julia Galef.
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Episodes with Peter Turchin & Julia Galef
Massimo Pigliucci
+ Julia Galef
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Peter Turchin
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28 Feb 2010
• EN
Rationally Speaking #3 - Can History Be a Science?
Our guest, Prof. Peter Turchin from the University of Connecticut, joins Massimo and Julia to discuss whether history can be studied and understood in a scientific manner. In an article in Nature (3 July 2008) on what he termed “cliodynamics,” he discusses the possibility of turning history into a science. In it, he pr