Diálogos possíveis entre história e história da ciência: analogias e interfaces entre a historiografia da ciência francesa e a historiografia dos Annales com o pensamento de Thomas Kuhn

Abstract

Much has been discussed about the social and cultural aspects of the history of science. However, a dialogue remains underexplored by us historians from both the historiographic and the theory of history perspectives: the interface between history, the history of science and epistemology. By understanding science as a social practice, it has also fallen to historians to understand the nature of its object, which is at the confluence of both disciplines. In this sense, we can say the History of Science investigates the science produced by men throughout time and thereby inserts it in the social sciences, enabling us to analyze the theories and methodological tools employed in writing this History. Although each field analyzed possesses its specificities, the theoretical-methodological framework of history tout court offers various analytical tools to the history of science. The historian of science analyzes hard science and the scientific texts produced by it from a historical perspective. The questions, for the historian, are: how are scientific concepts and ideas elaborated by the scientists that write their own history? They are made by analogy to the history? Such questions provoke simultaneous compartmentalization and interchange. Finally, the proposal is to think about the history of science as a field within history in which the theoretical and methodological references cross and interpenetrate, remembering always that the history of science is history.