Tannery and Duhem on the concept of a system in the history of philosophy and history of science

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tannery and Duhem on the concept of a system in the history of philosophy and history of science

AU - Catana, Leo

PY - 2011/12/1

Y1 - 2011/12/1

N2 - Pioneering historians of science from the 19th century accounted for past, natural philosophy. Since the 18th century, historians of philosophy had covered this field as part of a wider narrative of past philosophy. Some early historians of science contrasted the methodologies governing the two historical disciplines, creating the impression that they were mutually independent. Modern commentators have tended to take these declarations at face value. This article argues that Tannery and Duhem, some of the first historians of science, transferred historiographical concepts from history of philosophy to history of science; their uses of the concept system of philosophy is one case in point

AB - Pioneering historians of science from the 19th century accounted for past, natural philosophy. Since the 18th century, historians of philosophy had covered this field as part of a wider narrative of past philosophy. Some early historians of science contrasted the methodologies governing the two historical disciplines, creating the impression that they were mutually independent. Modern commentators have tended to take these declarations at face value. This article argues that Tannery and Duhem, some of the first historians of science, transferred historiographical concepts from history of philosophy to history of science; their uses of the concept system of philosophy is one case in point

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1749-6977

VL - 21

SP - 493

EP - 509

JO - Intellectual History Review

JF - Intellectual History Review

IS - 4

ER -