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- Title
What Is and Isn't in a Name.
- Authors
Frumer, Yulia
- Abstract
Although I remain sympathetic to the narrative behind the notion of "History of Knowledge," I argue against redrawing the disciplinary boundaries around "knowledge," as opposed to retaining the term "science." This is not because I think there is no place for a "history of knowledge," and not because I am concerned that such a redrawing of disciplinary boundaries would open the floodgates of "anything goes." Rather, I am doubtful that problems of demarcation and exclusion can be resolved solely by changing a name. I draw on my personal experience as an East Asianist to suggest that the challenges I faced trying to fit into the community of historians of science and technology would not have been solved by renaming the discipline. At the same time, I also argue that changes can and do happen without a change of name. And finally, I maintain that the word "science" has important connotations that we do not want to give up.
- Subjects
HISTORY of knowledge management; SCIENCE education; HISTORIANS; TECHNOLOGY; HISTORY of science
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2020, Vol 42, Issue 3, p150
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201900002