In order to construct this embracing synthesis that allows analytically thinking
about science, it is suggested here that the conceptual ‘cement’ can be the focus on
the ‘interventive’ nature of the scientific activity. Post-Kuhnian philosophy of
science [i.e. authors after 1970 in the historicist and sociological ‘turns’ set off by
The structure of scientific revolutions (Kuhn 1962)] provides the theoretical
foundations for such focus.