History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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Is It a Difference Between a Cause and an Effect in the Historical Sciences?
"I think both end up using narrative quite strongly. And I think that's one of the reasons why we get into so much trouble and how they are." "One goes from an effect and goes backwards to find the cause. The other starts from a cause or a, or a hypothesized cause and goes forward to predict," she says. 'Both are kind of doing sometimes the same thing,' he adds. "'What was really important is to not get ahead of us and start talking about how you've introduced causality in the Buddhist sense because there's something really important as a distinction' - Sutter.
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