Styles of Scientific Thinking in Geography

Abstract

This study, which focuses on the styles of scientific thinking in the geographical praxis, claims that geography has been characterized historically by three different styles of scientific thinking. The styles that are created by revisiting geographical

thinking in the light of the modern world-system analysis are called holistic one-cultural, systematic-empirical, and systematic- two cultural, respectively and provide the framework in which the Crombiean scientific thinking styles (Crombie, 1994) can be

embedded and understood. It was concluded in this attempt at constructing geographical styles with an abductive reasoning that the Crombiean modernist macro-scale framework could only be meaningful and enhanced by a discipline-specific reconstruction of the styles exhibited by singular sciences historically.