HISTORIOGRAPHIC SCHOOL

CONCEPTION OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE

PICTURE OF SCIENCE (AND OF SCIENTISTS)

HISTORIANS’ TASK

KUHN (1990)

(The Road since Structure)

History of science as the Darwinian biological speciation, associated to both Kant’s “a priori” categories and Kant’s “thing in itself”

Sectors of Science similar to branches of a biological tree.

The revolutionary changes in sciences correspond to the increases in biological speciation

Recognition of lexicon and taxonomic changes inside the scientific communities.