Through an analysis of key insights from two central figures of philosophy of history, Louis Mink and Hayden White, this article tries to answer the following questions: firstly, why can narrative structure be thought as ...

The recognition by the sociology of scientific knowledge of the artifactuality and contingent character of scientific knowledge has resulted in considering the canonical narrative forms of history of science as unsustainable ...

Metahistory, the book whose forty years publication anniversary calls for this dossier, is not only about the chronological organization or the beginning-middle-end structure of the story, but also about the triple-dimensionality ...