SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE

SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE

ABSTRACT 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 sc...

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Autor principal: Munévar,Gonzalo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad de Tarapacá. Escuela de Psicología y Filosofía 2018
Materias:
Feyerabend
Galileo
Lakatos
Evolutionary Epistemology
Realism
Evolutionary Relativism
Proliferation of Theories
Relative Truth
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-506520180001000172019-07-09SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGEMunévar,Gonzalo Feyerabend Galileo Lakatos Evolutionary Epistemology Realism Evolutionary Relativism Proliferation of Theories Relative Truth ABSTRACT 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 evolu tion 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Tarapacá. Escuela de Psicología y FilosofíaLímite (Arica) v.13 n.41 20182018-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-50652018000100017en10.4067/S0718-50652018000100017
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topic Feyerabend
Galileo
Lakatos
Evolutionary Epistemology
Realism
Evolutionary Relativism
Proliferation of Theories
Relative Truth
spellingShingle Feyerabend
Galileo
Lakatos
Evolutionary Epistemology
Realism
Evolutionary Relativism
Proliferation of Theories
Relative Truth
Munévar,Gonzalo
SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE
description ABSTRACT 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 evolu tion 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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title SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE
title_short SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE
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title_fullStr SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE
title_full_unstemmed SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE
title_sort science as radical knowledge
publisher Universidad de Tarapacá. Escuela de Psicología y Filosofía
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