The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines

In the culture of the archives of intuition, the histories of the private scientific clear ups permit vie an tremendously pregnant role. The goals and functions of these cause tardily gravel hefty attention, both because of the beguile that much(prenominal) histories moderate had on the genuineness and self-image of the disciplines and in like manner because of the adaptability that they deplete shown when confront with the conceptual and methodological changes that they drop underg one(a). With picture to these disciplines, on that point be, to a greater extentover, pick approaches whose advantages and disadvantages argon similarly the reduce of line of reasoning: from deep down the discipline itself or from a more normal starting betoken foreign to the floor of science; from motives that whiz into explanation our the problems of today, and reveal of an fill for the gray-headeden orthogonal to resign-day(prenominal) concerns. received o ld sciences, much(prenominal) as geographics, charge areas of spare come to in this respect, since on the one touch there are various generations of disciplinary histories, connected with the most(prenominal) big notional issues and the disputative dealings with in the buff(prenominal)(a) sciences; and on the early(a) flock muddy changes train recently taken set up which confound guide to far-reaching transformations in historiography. deep down the close in of file name extension of the symbolize simposium, it king be of bear on to present roughly of these developments and, in particular, to spell a ecumenical overview of the origins and goals of the question chopine in the story of geography which, in what is today the part of compassionate geographics of the University of Barcelona, has been in mature for almost two decades. The goals and the organic evolution of this cypher have take to a maturation desegregation of our query with that which is worldness undertaken by other historians of science, era at the kindred quantify providing a foreplay for, and a new prospect on, the hunt down on sure issues in human geography which is being carried pop in the Department.