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In this paper, I will discuss what specific traits distinguish sciences from other historical institutions. First I will review several philosophies conceiving sciences having in mind constitutive, but generic, features. This is the case when sciences are understood as explanation, as comprehension, as knowledge, as description, as representation, as construction, as cultural institution, as experimentation and elaboration of hypotheses, as theory, and as instrument of domination and intervention on reality. I put forward certain specific traits of theorems and scientific fields that allow us to distinguish sciences from other historical formations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a classification of the sciences carried out from the Gustavo Bueno's philosophy of categorial closure. Firstly, I will comment on certain assumptions of Bueno's theory that affect this classificatory task. Then, I will distinguish the classifications based on ontological criteria from those based on gnoseological criteria. Next, I will present a gnoseological criterion of classification of sciences that, although different from that proposed by Gustavo Bueno, is internal to the philosophy of categorial closure. Finally, I will apply that criterion and I will propose a classification of the sciences, confronting it with other alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]