Theory of Geography

• Scientific inference and explanation in science.
• Science and its critics,
• Development in science, scientific change, and scientific revolutions,
• Geography within the system of sciences: affinity and different approaches.
• Geographical explanation; geographical concepts. Doctrine, paradigm, theory, system, strategy, concept, plan,
• Development of geography/geographical thinking in Ancient world, Middle Ages and Renaissance.,
• The birth of modern scientific geography (geographical determinism, possibilism and the development of regional geography),
• The history of Slovene geography,
• Development of geographic thought after 1945 (positivism and quantitative revolution, behavioral geography, modern ecological approaches in geography, humanism; radical geography; critical geography; feminist geography; Postmodern geography),
• current trends in geographical research,
• development of geography in Slovenia.

• Castree, N., Rogers, A., Sherman, D. (ur.), 2005. Questioning geography. Fundamental debates. Oxford, Blackwell, 314 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 30777186
• Chalmers, A. F., 2010. What is This Thing Called Science? Buckingham: Open University Press. COBISS.SI-ID – 44173410
• Couper, P., 2015. A Student’s Introduction to Geographical Thought. London: SAGE Publications. 280 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 58729570
• Cresswell, T., 2013. Geographic thought. A critical introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 290 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 51483746
• Holloway, S. L., Rice, S. P., Valentine, G. (eds.), 2003. Key Concepts in Geography. London: Sage, 342 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 13979144
• Matthews, J. A., Herbert, D. T., 2008. Geography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 181 str. https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=520a55f9-ff6f…
• Ogrin, D. (ur.), 2019. Razvoj geografije na Slovenskem. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. 553 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 301605376

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