A demarcation between good and bad constructivism: the case of chemical substances as artifactual materials.
Author(s) -
Lucía Lewowicz
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
doispontos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7412
pISSN - 1807-3883
DOI - 10.5380/dp.v12i1.38695
Subject(s) - philosophy , epistemology , constructivism (international relations) , political science , law , politics , international relations
resumo: Este artigo pretende mostrar que sem a influencia de uma filosofia construtivista que eu denomino boa , representada principalmente por Bruno Latour, a elucidacao das substâncias quimicas teria sido virtualmente impossivel. Sem a nocao de materiais “artefatuais” cunhada por eles (artefatual nao e o mesmo que artificial, uma palavra com conotacoes de engano ou falsidade que nao se aplicam a artefatual; este neologismo procura evitar essas conotacoes e vem da palavra artefato), a Quimica Moderna seria impensavel a partir dos metaparadigmas em uso no campo atual da historia e da filosofia da ciencia. A tese central que defendo aqui e a de que o construtivismo, tal como definido pelos antropologos da ciencia, e uma maneira disfarcada de colocar a historica filosofia materialista na trilha da discussao historica e filosofica das ciencias e tecnologias e que isso restaura o papel desempenhado pelos materiais usados pelos cientistas para que sejam exatamente o que sao. abstract: This paper aims to show that without the influence of a constructivist philosophy I call good , mainly represented by Bruno Latour, the ontological elucidation of the chemical substances would have been virtually impossible. Without the notion of artifactual materials given by them (artifactual is not the same as artificial, a word with connotations of deceit or falsehood that do not apply to artifactual; this neologism attempts to avoid these connotations, and comes from the word artifact), would be Modern Chemistry unthinkable from the metaparadigms in use in the present field of history and philosophy of science. The central thesis I defended here is that constructivism as defined by the anthropologists of science is a disguised way of sliding historical materialist philosophy into the mainline of philosophical and historical discussion of the sciences and technologies and that those restore the role played by the materials used by sciences to be exactly what they are.
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