Recent Publications

The latest publications by the members of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Historical Sciences and Historiography:

Books:

Timmins, A. (2026). Thomas Kuhn: The reluctant revolutionary.

Tucker, A., & Černín, D. (Eds.). (2025). The Bloomsbury handbook of the philosophy of the historical sciences and Big History. Bloomsbury Academic.

Tucker, A. (2025). Historiographic reasoning. Cambridge University Press.

Černín, D., Gracová, B., Tomeček, S., & Stefan, M. (2023). Dějepis mezi vědou a vyprávěním.

Gangl, G. 2023.). Telling like it really was: On the form, presuppositions, and justification of historiographic knowledge. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis.

Tucker, A. (2020). Democracy against liberalism: Its rise and fall. Polity Press.

Papers and Book Chapters:

Tucker, A. (2026). Why I say “totalitarian regimes”: A response to totalitarianism denial. In M. Ungureanu (Ed.), Rethinking the historiography of the Soviet Bloc: The totalitarianism paradigm and institutional practices under communism. Berghahn Books.

Tucker, A. (2025). The originary sciences. In A. Tucker & D. Černín (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of the philosophy of the historical sciences and Big History (pp. 193–212). Bloomsbury Academic.

Černín, D., & Tucker, A. (2025). Introduction. In A. Tucker & D. Černín (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of the philosophy of the historical sciences and Big History (pp. 1–13). Bloomsbury Academic.

Zeleňák, E. Mapping Theory of History after the Linguistic Turn. História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography. 2025, č. 18, s. 1-24.

Gangl, G. (2025). “Universal history.” In A. Tucker & D. Černín (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of the historical sciences and Big History (pp. 137–154). Bloomsbury Academic.

Gangl, G. (2025). Origin stories: Big History between science and worldview. Metascience, 34(2), 97–110.

Černín, D. Multiscalar Narratives and the Study of Origins – Philosophical Analysis of Big History. Journal of the Philosophy of History. 2025, 19(3), 366–384.

Černín, D. Hypothesis Testing and Knowledge of the Human Past. Organon F. 2025, 32(2), 168-192.

Tucker, A. (2024). Historiographic populist emotivism. In B. Bevernage, E. Mestdagh, W. Ramalho, & M.-G. Verbergt (Eds.), Claiming the people’s past: Populist politics of history in the twenty-first century (pp. 248–266). Cambridge University Press.

Tucker, A. (2024). Proč říkám „totalitní režimy“: Reakce na popírání totalitarismu. Paměť a dějiny, 2023/2024, 16–28.

Tucker, A. (2024). From unreliable sources: Bayesian critique and normative modelling of HUMINT inferences. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 19(2), 207–222. [ingentaconnect.com]

Tucker, A. (2024). Origins. Perspectives on Science, 32(6), 770–794. [direct.mit.edu], [muse.jhu.edu]

Tucker, A. (2024). Panarchy: Non-territorial polycentricity. In P. Paniagua & D. Thunder (Eds.), Polycentric governance and the good society: A normative and philosophical investigation (pp. 165–186). Lexington Books. [philpapers.org], [amazon.com]

Gangl, G. (2024). The reality effect: On Adam Timmins’ Towards a Realist Philosophy of History. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 18(2), 235–248.

Černín, D. Interacting with the Past: Historical Sciences and Historical Games. Teorie vědy / Theory of Science. 2024, 46(2), s. 121-144.

Tucker, A. (2023). Critical reliability: A Bayesian program for intelligence analysis. Journal of Intelligence & Analysis, 26(1), 76–96.

Gangl, G., & Lähteenmäki, I. (2023). The futures of the philosophy of history. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 17(2), 177–194.

Tucker, A. (2022). Historicism now: Historiographic ontology, epistemology and methodology out of bounds. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 16, 92–121.

Gangl, G. (2021). History magistra vitae? The role of historiography in culture and politics. Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies, 52, 103–122.

Gangl, G. (2021). The essential tension: Historical knowledge between past and present. History and Theory, 60(3), 513–533.

Gangl, G. (2021). Narrative explanations: The case for causality. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 15(2), 157–181.

Gangl, G. (2020). Origins and genealogies. In A. Jensen & C. Santini (Eds.), Nietzsche on memory and history: The re-encountered shadow (pp. 57–75). De Gruyter.

Gangl, G. (2020). Historical evitability: The return of the philosophy of history. In J.-M. Kuukkanen (Ed.), Philosophy of history: Twenty-first-century perspectives (pp. 143–161). Bloomsbury.

Tucker, A. (2020). The inferences of common causes reduced to common origins. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 81, 105–115.

Černín, D. (2023). Quentin Skinner′s attempt to clarify Collingwood. Teorie vědy / Theory of Science, 45(1), 1–18.

Gangl, G. (2023). Philosophy of historiography and the potential of history education. Filozofia, 78(3), 180–193.

Gangl, G. (2022). Faking a collision course: When history clashes with populism. Filozofia, 77(2), 97–111.

Gangl, G. (2020). Historical methodology and critical thinking as synergised concepts. Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin, 9(13).

Černín, D. (2019). Historical antirealism and the past as a fictional model. Organon F, 26(4), 635–659.

Updated: 03. 03. 2026