Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
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Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 20261 hr 2 min
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I spoke with Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington about her 2026 book Artificial Historians, co-authored with Anne Martin and Lewis Yarlupurka O’Brien. A distinguished historian, philosopher, academic leader, and Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) based at the University of Adelaide, my guest explores how the logic of history, defined around trivalent logic (the “maybes,” the “ifs,” the ontological uncertainties), intersects with and challenges the logic of dominant AI algorithms. The book raises urgent questions about the changing status of human agency, the ethics of AI-powered data collection about us, and the de facto histories that AI is writing abo...

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Welcome to the New Books Network. My guest is Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington. She's Bradley Distinguished Professor of History and Philosophy at Adelaide University in Australia. Professor Hughes Warrington studied at the University of Tasmania and Oxford.

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She's a former Rhodes Scholar. She published widely on theory and philosophy of history, exploring the multiple and often surprising connections between these disciplines and their place in the overarching search for truth across different cultures and societies. And today we're talking about her most recent

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book with contributions from Anne Martin and Louis C. Arla Percocco-Brien, titled Artificial Historians, published this year in 2026 by Rutledge. The book is available in digital open access format. Marni, welcome to Practical History and thank you so much for joining us today.

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