本文旨在回顧並檢討「台灣科學史」此歷史學的新領域，經由「台灣科技政策」、「科學社群」與「科學文化與思想」三方面來回顧此領域的一些成就與限制，並指出此領域的「邊緣位置」與「史識自覺」等特色，最後對此領域研究提出建議。台灣科學史作爲一個位處邊緣位置的新興研究領域，具有一些特色如研究者大都相當年輕，且多半不是傳統歷史學界出身，許多研究融入科學社會學及科學哲學的觀點，許多研究以學位論文的形式出現、具有實用性格等等。這樣的邊緣性格使得台灣科學史呈現了豐富的多元風貌。進一步地，台灣科學史研究者已帶入打破學科分際、具有整合精神的STS概念。此跨學科整合透過權力／知識的再思考及各種知識之間相互引發、刺激，以期突破舊藩籬。這種史識的自覺更將進一步地反省學術研究的政治立場及意識形態。台灣科學史因具有實用性格而引入各種身份的研究者；但當台灣步入科技社會之際，正是需要以歷史的觀點來反省台灣科學的內在性格及其與社會的各種關係。

This paper intends to review a new research field: the history of Taiwan's scientific development. Examining three issues, such as "Taiwan's science policy," "scientific community," and "scientific culture and thought," this paper points out that the marginality and the introspection of the historiography are two significant characteristics of this new field. Finally, this paper recommends certain possible research topics regarding the history of Taiwan's scientific development. Several interesting phenomena characterize the historiography of Taiwan's scientific development: many researchers are young; lots of researchers are outsiders of the traditional history community; the social studies of science and the philosophy of science play significant roles in the historical studies of Taiwan's scientific development; many research papers are shown in thesis or dissertation styles rather than papers; some researchers use the research of the history of Taiwan's scientific development for their personal purposes. These phenomena show the marginality of this new filed, which also fosters the possibility of pluralism in this field. Furthermore, the researchers of this field have brought in the perspectives of STS (Science and Technology Studies) which incorporate the history of science, the social studies of science, the philosophy of science, and others into one interdiscipline any field. This interdisciplinary approach is going to stimulate any intellectual possibility by means of cross-stimulating each other among the sub-disciplines and by introspecting the "power/knowledge" issue. In addition, this reflectivity of historiography will help researchers re-think their political identities and the ideology of their research. The pragmatistic possibility of the history of Taiwan's scientific development attracts certain researchers. However, when Taiwan is becoming a high-tech society, we need to examine the characteristics of Taiwan's scientific culture and the relationship between scientific development and society in Taiwan through the historical studies of Taiwan's scientific development.

台灣科學；歷史研究

Taiwan's scientific development; historiography