Cambios en la historia y en la filosofía de la ciencia en Kuhn

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of the history of science in the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn. In order to understand his views. I examine the subjet with the help of a taxonomy proposed by Marx Wartofsky. I intend to demonstrate that the relations between both disciplines (history of science and philosophy of science) have changed along his writings since his famous book. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions until his last articles of the 80's and 90's. I will argue that the history of science has fully lost its protagonist role it had in the early stage of Kuhn's thought. My argument is that this fact is a consequence -among other reasons- of the evolution of the incommensurability thesis.