Peter Kosso
（2001年刊行，Humanity Books, Amherst, 200 pp., ISBN:1573929077 [hbk]）
【目次】
List of Figures 13
Acknowledgments 15
Chapter 1: Introducton 17
The Principal Issues 22
Foundations of Knowledge 22
Interpretation 24
Fact-Value Distinction 27
Limits of knowledge 28
History and Archaeology 29
The Role of Philosophy 33Part One: The Conceptual Argument
Chapter 2: The Nature of Evidence 39
Intuitive Warmup 41
Interaction, Information, and Observation 44
Observation of the Human Past 49
Repeatable Phenomena 55
Summary 56
Chapter 3: The Structure of Justification 59
Middle-Range Theories 61
Contextual Archaeology 64
Middle-Range Theory as Contextual Method 67
Summary 72
Chapter 4: Variables of Independence 75
The Value of Independence 77
Varieties of Independence 81
Texts, Archaeology, and the Epistemic Independence 85
Summary 89
Chapter 5: Knowing the Past 91
The General Model of Justification 91
Fact and Theory 93
Argument by Analogy 99
Kinds of Conceptual Influence 105
Weighted Coherence 106
Bootstrapping 108Part Two: The Empirical Argument
Chapter 6: Athenian Cleruchies 113
Historical Archaeology 116
The Hypothesis 118
The Evidence 125
Negotiation between Hypothesis and Evidence 133
Chapter 7: Central Place Theory (Written with Cynthia Kosso) 137
The Hypotesis and Evidence 137
Central Place theory 142
Using Central Place Theory as Middle-Range Theory 146
Testing, Use, and Coherence 150
Chapter 8: Thucydides 153
The Peloponnesian War 154
What to Look for 155
Thucydides 150
Back to the Concepts 166Part Three: The Closing Argument
Chapter 9: The Revised Theory 171
Learning from the Evidence 171
Knowledge of Subjective Senses 177
Truth and Justification 180
Knowing the Present 182
Asking the Right Questions 183
Glossary 185
Bibliography 190
Index 197
