This introduction to the special issue Reflections on Histories and Philosophies of Geography discusses the context and content of nineteen articles written to mark the fortieth anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). The group was founded in 1981, two years after the early career researchers who set up the group, Richard T. Harrison and David N. Livingstone, published jointly their first critical interventions in support of human geography's paradigmatic shift away from positivism, based on an early form of social constructivist argumentation. We argue that the subsequent proliferation of epistemic pluralism, which is discussed in the contributions to this special issue and has characterised the activities organised by the HPGRG, exemplifies the considerable value of three historiographical practices: first, engaging with the history and philosophy of geography collectively in one research group; second, situating methodologies within the history and philosophy of geography; and third, critically interrogating the discipline's evolving geographical knowledges, professional practices, and material cultures from different authorial positionalities.

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地理学的历史与哲学：回顾与展望


《地理学历史与哲学思考》特刊的简介讨论了为纪念英国皇家地理学会地理学历史与哲学研究小组 (HPGRG) 与英国地理学家研究所成立四十周年而撰写的 19 篇文章的背景和内容（RGS-IBG）。该小组成立于 1981 年，两年后，该小组的早期职业研究人员理查德·T·哈里森 (Richard T. Harrison) 和大卫·N. 利文斯通 (David N. Livingstone) 联合发表了他们的第一份批判性干预措施，支持人文地理学从实证主义范式转变，其基础是社会建构主义论证的早期形式。我们认为，认识论多元化随后的扩散（在本期特刊的投稿中进行了讨论，并成为 HPGRG 组织的活动的特征）体现了三种史学实践的巨大价值：首先，共同参与地理学的历史和哲学。在一个研究小组中；其次，将方法论置于地理学的历史和哲学之中；第三，从不同的作者立场批判性地质疑该学科不断发展的地理知识、专业实践和物质文化。