Epistemologia em conflito: Uma contribuição à história das guerras da ciência

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Gabriel da Costa Avila
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Epistemologia; Guerra das ciências; Historiografia da ciência; Ciencia Historia; História; Ciencia Historiografia
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-8G9NJU

At the end of the XXth century, a group of scientists engaged in a series of intellectual disputes that came to be known as the Science Wars. Throughout a number of books, articles and lectures, these scientists wanted to defend a vision of science against the advancement ofpositions accused of relativism. The approaches that caused this kind of reaction emerge from the turn suffered by areas like History, Sociology or Philosophy of Science. The Science Wars assumed the tone of an epistemological debate, in which significant questions on the scientificknowledge interpretation tradition were enrolled. On one side, the scientists defended an "objectivist" attitude, on the other side, the science analysts that had developed an "non objectivist"epistemology. In this dissertation, I have tried to examine the Science Wars as anhistorical phenomenon which articulates epistemological questions and political tensions.