Social constructivists stories and their problems

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.29.17

Keywords:

Social constructivism. Stabilization. Hydrogen bubble chamber. Andrew Pickering.

Abstract

In order to explain the success of scientific achievements, traditional approaches in philosophy of science employ epistemological criteria; social constructivist approaches, a) also use epistemological criteria, but they do so without the well-known accuracy of traditional approaches, b) when they employ their own social constructivist concepts, lack them the exactness which we find at epistemological criteria, and c) spend a lot more in stories than in conceptual reconstructions. Therefore, we have a methodological difference between traditional approaches and social constructivism. This difference will be the key subject matter of this paper. The core concept that runs through the paper is that, although social constructivist stories sound ways of explaining the success of science, they have some thresholds.

Author Biography

Marcos Rodrigues da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)

Possui graduação em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1994), mestrado em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1996) e doutorado em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo (2003). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Universidade Estadual de Londrina e Bolsista Pesquisador da Fundação Araucária. Atua em Filosofia da Ciência, especialmente nos seguintes temas: realismo científico, história da biologia e ensino de biologia.

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2023-01-01

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No. 29 (2023)

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