Los fines de la Geografía
ISSN: 0213-4691, 1989-9890
Year of publication: 2004
Issue: 33
Pages: 39-62
Type: Article
More publications in: Investigaciones Geográficas (España)
Abstract
The adaptation of Kuhn's scientific revolutions theory causes an intense alteration for the didactic manner of expound ideas of geographic thought; since then, these knowledge come out like a succession of paradigms. This thinking investigates on the goodness of adaptation of paradigms system to geographical knowledge and contributes some examples of up setting of this one. The paper, finally, values the necessity of geographical discipline at the present time, the role of ideologies in the geographic thought, the present aims of geography and the impossible end of this essential knowledge.