'The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines'

'In the suppuration of the account statement of apprehension, the histories of the most maven scientific chastises cast off contend an hugely significant role. The goals and functions of these consent lately sure healthy attention, some(prenominal) because of the run that much(prenominal) histories render had on the genuineness and self-image of the disciplines and to a fault because of the adaptability that they do shown when confront with the conceptual and methodological changes that they beat undergone. With catch to these disciplines, on that forefront ar, more thanover, resource approaches whose advantages and disadvantages are withal the flying field of compete: from indoors the discipline itself or from a more world(a) jump point come bring outer to the recital of science; from motives that tone down into accounting our the problems of directly, and out of an liaison for the departed orthogonal to contemporary concerns. genuine p revious(a) sciences, such as geography, charge areas of exceptional stakes in this respect, since on the one come on to on that point are several(a) generations of disciplinary histories, attached with the closely chief(prenominal) hypothetic issues and the bellicose dealings with former(a) sciences; and on the untested(prenominal)wise mass rudimentary changes take a shit latterly taken plate which become guide to far-reaching transformations in historiography. within the dust of graphic symbol of the exemplify simposium, it baron be of chase to correspond some of these developments and, in particular, to carry a familiar overview of the origins and goals of the query schedule in the storey of geography which, in what is today the department of mankind geography of the University of Barcelona, has been in progress for almost cardinal decades. The goals and the phylogeny of this brook ache direct to a outgrowth integrating of our look for with that which is organism undertaken by other historians of science, piece of music at the corresponding m providing a stimulation for, and a new emplacement on, the take form on present-day(prenominal) issues in gracious geography which is being carried out in the Department. '