Cool... "Historians of Science used to categorize schools of thinking without any formal tools to do it (e.g., transformists, evolutionists, gradists, etc.). To produce such categories they had to compare ideas among authors, however, without any clear procedure. The same can be said about systematists, who have been categorizing themselves for long ago into schools like pheneticists, cladists, pattern cladists, synthetists, etc. Systematics, the science of classification, is using directed acyclic connected graphs to represent relationships among organisms, i.e. hierarchies in the distribution of shared attributes. From those figures systematists produce classifications (nested sets), which categorize organisms. The aim of this study is to explore whether the tools used to produce systematic categories of organisms could be useful to produce categories of ideas in history of science. The benefit should be the reproductiveness and testability of the consistency of the categories that are produced. We propose a testable way to categorize ideas, but we need a case study: what kind of ideas?"
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:14:28 +0000
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