Evandro Agazzi's Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts PDF

By Evandro Agazzi

ISBN-10: 3319046594

ISBN-13: 9783319046594

ISBN-10: 3319357344

ISBN-13: 9783319357348

the 1st a part of this booklet is of an epistemological nature and develops an unique conception of medical objectivity, understood in a susceptible experience (as intersubjective contract one of the experts) and a powerful experience (as having certain concrete referents). In either situations it depends the adoption of operational standards designed in the specific standpoint lower than which any unmarried technological know-how considers truth. The “object” so attained has a formal ontological prestige, depending on the categorical personality of the factors of reference (regional ontologies). This justifies a kind of clinical realism. Such views also are the results of a posh cultural-historical state of affairs. the notice of the sort of “historical determinacy” of technological know-how justifies together with within the philosophy of technology the issues of ethics of technology, relatives of technology with metaphysics and social dimensions of technological know-how that overstep the normal restrict of the philosophy of technological know-how to an epistemology of technology. it truly is to this “context” that the second one a part of the ebook is devoted.

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