Is it possible to have knowledge of the past?
• Is truth the goal of all historical inquiry?
• What counts as a fact in history?
Are historians’ accounts necessarily subjective?
Can the historian be free of bias in the selection and interpretation of material?
Is it inevitable that historians will be affected by their own cultural context?
How can we gauge the extent to which history is being told from a cultural or national perspective?
Are we more prone to particular cognitive biases (such as hindsight bias) in some disciplines and areas of knowledge rather than others?
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