ArtefaCToS. Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología

Make a submission

Giere’ Perspectivism from an Axiological Perspective

https://doi.org/10.14201/art20211014759

Abstract

Scientific perspectivism (Giere, 2006) is an epistemological proposal that considers scientific theories as points of view for knowledge. It was an important turn in Giere’s work, because he turned to scientific practice and even analyzed examples from contemporary technoscience (Hubble, CERN, etc.) and not just from modern science, as other epistemologists tend to do. This article aims to improve Giere’s proposal by adding an axiological dimension to his perspectivism. It starts from the hypothesis that scientific activity is guided by epistemic values (Kuhn, Laudan, Putnam) and that other types of values operate in technoscience. By way of conclusion, taking up Giere’s debate between objectivism and perspectivism, it is stated that when epistemologists speak of objectivity and reality, they are speaking of values, and more specifically of epistemic values (objectivity), as well as ontological values (reality).
  • Referencias
  • Cómo citar
  • Del mismo autor
  • Métricas
Cartwright, Nancy (1983). How the Laws of Physics Lye. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Echeverría, Javier (1995). Filosofía de la ciencia. Madrid: Akal.

Echeverría, Javier (1995). Ciencia y valores. Madrid: Destino.

Echeverría, Javier (1995). La revolución tecnocientífica. Madrid: FCE.

Ferrater Mora, José (1965). Diccionario de filosofía. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana.

Giere, Ronald N. (1985). Constructive Realism. En Paul M. Churchland and C. A. Hooker (eds.), Images of Science (pp. 75-96). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Giere, Ronald N. (1988). Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Giere, Ronald N. (1999). Science Without Laws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Giere, Ronald N. (2006). Scientific Perspectivism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kuhn, Thomas (1982). La tensión esencial. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Olivé, León (2000). El bien, el mal y la razón. Facetas de la ciencia y la tecnología. México: Paidós.

Proctor, Robert N. (1991). Value-Free Science? Cambridge University Press.

Putnam, Hilary (1988). Las mil caras del realismo. Madrid: Paidós.

Putnam, Hilary (2001). El colapso de la dicotomía hecho/valor. Barcelona: Paidós.

Rescher, Nicholas (1999). Razones y Valores en la Era científico-tecnológica, Barcelona: Paidós.

Weinberg, Steven (2001). Facing UP. Science and its Cultural Adversaries. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Echeverría, J. (2021). Giere’ Perspectivism from an Axiological Perspective. ArtefaCToS. Revista De Estudios Sobre La Ciencia Y La tecnología, 10(1), 47–59. https://doi.org/10.14201/art20211014759

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
+ −