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Interview with Sam Biagetti of Historiansplaining

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Are You a History or a Philosophy of History?

All fields of knowledge in my opinion fall into just two actual overarching fields which are physics and history. The history is the attempt to account for human behavior in context. I think you would be very hard pressed to find any contemporary historians who would say they're capable of doing objective history that would meet the kind of standards of a physics or chemistry or even biology. Isabella: Would you like to weigh in on psychology or ask anything else? And it's so tempting because I kind of mostly agree with you but the devil's in the details but I won't go into another question.

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