Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the

How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational stat

* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and th