Qu’est-ce que l’épistémologie historique ?

We Have Never Been “New Experimentalists”: On the Rise and Fall of the Turn to Experimentation in the 1980s

“…In this case, its moderate success has resulted from clear institutional backing by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, which organized a set of conferences and created a number of research groups related to historical epistemology from the 1990s on. This activity has also caused some groups in Paris to center around the label, such as the Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology (see Braunstein et al 2019). Moreover, this movement has attempted to reestablish the work of Hacking as part of its movement, linking it back to earlier French figures such as Gaston Bachelard.…”

Thinking Crossroads: from Scientific Pluralism to Pluralist History of Science

“…If we step out of mainstream-and thus first Germanic and now prevalently anglophonephilosophy of science, we realize that the disunity of science was an idea with conceptual force long before the "pluralist turn" sketched above. This is especially the case for many of the historians and philosophers of science belonging to French historical epistemology (Braunstein et al 2019). The idea that every "region" or domain of knowledge has its own methods and standards of rationality can to some extent be traced back to Auguste Comte, who believed that each scientific domain has its own canons of investigation (Hacking 1996, 37-39;Scharff 1995;Braunstein 2009, 36-40).…”