In re derivative and/or dependence: the one great case I've encountered in history was the Great Fealty Debate of about 15-20 years ago. The historians who wrote on the subject all seemed to say pretty much the same thing, which was because they all used the same (re)sources - Mark Bloch and F.L. Ganshof, F.M. Stenton and Carl Stephenson, Joseph Strayer. It wasn't until Susan Reynolds came along and decided that she wanted to, basically, fact-check all of them by going back to the original sources and documents, that some fresh air (if something dating to the 10th and 11th centuries could be considered "fresh") showed up.
I can only wonder how it would work in philosophy where the original sources are all less based in real-world facts than happens with history. (Or so it seems to me, who has a lot more training in history than philosophy....)
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Date: 2015-09-11 03:16 pm (UTC)I can only wonder how it would work in philosophy where the original sources are all less based in real-world facts than happens with history. (Or so it seems to me, who has a lot more training in history than philosophy....)