Science as radical knowledge

• Munévar, Gonzalo ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California, Berkeley
• Localización: Límite: revista de filosofía y psicología, ISSN-e 0718-5065, ISSN 0718-1361, Vol. 13, Nº. 41, 2018, págs. 17-28
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La ciencia como conocimiento radical
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  • español

    La visión de que la ciencia es típicamente un proceso acumulativo y progresivo, como lo sugieren algunos historiadores de la ciencia y algunos realistas científicos, está minada tanto por la historia como por consideraciones evolutivas sobre la naturaleza de la ciencia. Los intentos de utilizar la biología evolutiva para retratar el desarrollo científico como continuo se basan en desafortunadas analogías con la evolución de la vida. Una aplicación adecuada de la biología evolutiva, en combinación con la neurociencia, derrota el caso del realismo en cuestión y conduce a la comprensión de que la ciencia no solo está abierta a la transformación radical, como lo indica la historia, sino que debería ser así. Los enfoques no evolutivos para la continuidad histórica de la ciencia, como el de Lakatos, no tienen mejor suerte. Como discutiré, la ciencia es una forma radical de conocimiento

  • English

    The view that science is typically a cumulative, progressive process, as suggested by some historians of science and some scientific realists, is undermined both by history and by evolutionary considerations about the nature of science. The attempts to use evolutionary biology to portray scientific development as continuous are based on unfortunate analogies to the evolution of life. A proper application of evolutionary biology, in combination with neuroscience, defeats the case for the realism in question and leads to the realization that science is not only open to radical transformation, as history indicates, but that it should be so. Non-evolutionary approaches for the historical continuity of science, such as Lakatos’, do not fare much better.As I will argue, science is a radical form of knowledge.

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