Question: To what extent do physical and human geography share an intellectual history?
Answers should incorporate specific examples of geographical research to illustrate conceptual change in the discipline.
Answer: All geographical research is guided by a set of philosophical beliefs, influencing or motivating the selection of topics for study. There has been and always will be differences in opinion in what or how geography is to be studied and where divides lie. This essay aims to look at the intellectual history of physical and human geography with reference to ideology, epistemology, ontology and methodology using specific examples of geographical research over time.
This essay can only be ‘an’ interpretation of the history of geography, looking at key chapters and influential thinkers. It is difficult to write on a sequence of events without lapsing into narrative and such reconstruction will be open to much criticism. (Livingstone 1992)...(short extract)
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- Subject: Geography
- Course: Geography
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 64%
- Words: 2258
- Date submitted: July 30, 2009
- Date written: November, 2005
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1988
