Historians of science have described various cases of disciplines influencing one another. Such exchanges across disciplinary boundaries often signal innovation, intellectual change, and breakthroughs. A satisfactory framework from which the historical phenomenon of epistemic transfer between disciplines can be studied systematically, however, has not yet been proposed. This essay introduces the notion of “cognitive goods,” a tool of knowledge making that can be transferred across disciplinary boundaries. Cognitive goods include, for example, methods, concepts, and instruments. The essay proposes to study historical interactions between disciplines as instances of the “flow” of cognitive goods. The notion of cognitive goods may serve as a springboard for a systematic analysis of flows occurring throughout the history of the disciplines. Such an analysis could be instrumental for an integrated historiography of knowledge, including the humanities and the natural and social sciences.

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认知商品的流动：认知转移研究的史学框架

科学史家描述了各种学科相互影响的案例。这种跨越学科界限的交流往往标志着创新、知识变革和突破。然而，尚未提出一个令人满意的框架，从中可以系统地研究学科之间的认知转移的历史现象。本文介绍了“认知商品”的概念，这是一种可以跨越学科界限的知识创造工具。认知商品包括例如方法、概念和工具。本文建议研究学科之间的历史相互作用，作为认知商品“流动”的实例。认知善的概念可以作为系统分析贯穿学科历史的流动的跳板。