"HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY": SUBJECT-CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTION - FROM CHRONOLOGY OF FACTS TO HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL GENERALIES
The article discusses the development of a new historical discipline of the “history of science and technology”, which has been undergoing its formation in recent decades. By introducing modern scientific and philosophical approaches into its methodology, the history of science and technology as a science demonstrates the general pattern of any modern science - an accelerating transition to an increasingly general, historical and philosophical level. The influence of philosophical concepts on the development of this science is considered. The concept of the historical interaction of science and technology is analyzed as the most important direction and subject of research by historians and methodologists working in this field. Along with the general theoretical formulation of the question, private ones were also considered. One of the aspects of this process is taken - the question of teaching it as a course in the system of higher education. The author, analyzing these changes indicates that they require changes in the educational process, in the teaching approach to the presentation of the discipline. The aspect of teaching this discipline is considered on the example of the history of energy. Used by the Department of History of Science and Technology of the Ural Federal University.