ABSTRACT
In 1989 Larry Laudan penned a retrospective for the journal Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science appraising the state of the field of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) twenty years after he and Gerd Buchdahl had together founded Studies. This chapter proposes that an empirical science of science can provide a fresh approach to the field of HPS, capable of fruitfully integrating key components of both History of Science (HS) and Philosophy of Science (PS). It introduces the work currently being done by a community of scholars who have taken Hakob Barseghyan’s The Laws of Scientific Change as a starting point and the theoretical basis for an empirical science of science named scientonomy. A fundamental strength of Barseghyan’s work is that it offers a compelling historical hypothesis for why HS and PS are unintegrated, and crafts a theory of scientific change that explicitly redresses the causes of this unintegration.
