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Science and the History of the Sciences. Conceptual Innovations Through Historicizing Science in the Eighteenth
1Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, Janskerkhof 13A, NL-3512 BL Utrecht.
Abstract:
Science and the History of the Sciences. Conceptual Innovations Through Historicizing Science in the Eighteenth Century. The historical reconstruction of science is linked to philosophical discussions of the eighteenth century in many ways. The historiography of philosophy and the historiography of science share the conceptual problem to assemble the multitude of scientific and philosophical practices under general concepts. The historical analysis of scientific progress offers a clue by problematizing definitions of "science" and "sciences" as well as the system of sciences as a whole. By analyzing these conceptual problems and the typology of historical enterprises of the eighteenth century, this paper will discuss the close interrelations which existed between philosophical and historical discourses of eighteenth-century reflection on science.
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