Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there are degree-granting departments of HPS at several prominent universities.
[4] This attitude is also reflected in his historicist approach, as outlined in Kuhn's seminal Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962, 2nd ed.
They differ in a number of their central constitutive characteristics, of which the most general and apparent is their goals.
The final product of most historical research is a narrative, a story, about particulars of the past.
"[5] More recent work questions whether these methodological and conceptual divisions are in fact barriers to a unified discipline.