Teaching Students to Navigate Externalist and Internalist Approaches in the History of Science

History of science, and its attendant specializations of medicine and technology, pose a significant obstacle to the evaluation of information. The salient concern is the internalist versus externalist approaches in published scholarship. Depending on student’s choice of topics, they confront a complex landscape of publication that influences, if not determines, the veracity of their comprehension and understanding of how research and publication appear in history of science. Describing a hypothetical model, exercises are offered that introduce undergraduates to a disciplinary domain that revolves round two opposed methodological perspectives.