When science becomes technology: epistemological and ethical consequences of the Adduction

La Clinica terapeutica
P Cugini

Abstract

Notwithstanding that the sciences are every day closest to technology, the Philosophy of Science has not yet well realized the epistemological and ethical differences that make different the "Traditional Naturalistic Science" (TNS) and the technological, artefactual, intrusive science that I called: "Post-Modern Meta-Naturalistic Science" (P-MM-NS). The first type of science has as a primary scope the knowledge of nature, using a methodology that departs from the methodic doubt, realizes a hypothesis, defines the aim(s), adopts a protocol, interprets and discusses the results, inferentially derives the conclusions, according to the classical philosophical reasonings of induction, deduction, abduction. In my philosophical reasoning, I realized that P-MM-NS follows an absolutely different epistemological procedure. The technological science prefigures a scope, produces a non-natural technically-modified object, gives for sure the occurrence of the effect for which the object has been manufactured. This means that only "in retrospect" it will ascertain whether or not the promised effect has occurred, considering that any technical artifact could be rejected by that natural environment in which it has been, acritically, delivered, ...Continue Reading

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Oct 5, 2018·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Carmela ProtanoMatteo Vitali
Apr 30, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Carmela ProtanoMatteo Vitali

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