Summary: For all the debate the question has so often provoked, historians have been left with more confusion, disagreement, and apathy than answers when asking whether or not their discipline should be considered a science. However, this debate should have major implications for how historians relate to scholars in other fields and how their discipline is perceived (and funded) in their societies. In this podcast, we examine the question by looking at some scholarly debates about the definitions of science itself in conjunction with a discussion of how working definitions of history relate to these debates.
