Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Science and the Context of Relevance
1988; Duke University Press; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1772887
ISSN1527-5507
Autores Tópico(s)Philosophy, Science, and History
ResumoA categorial distinction has long dominated discussions about the adequate relation between the empirical analysis of science and its epistemology, between the of and the of justification. Although there are countless philosophical variations on the theme, a much more practical issue which has received attention in recent years and will concern us here is the relation of science and cultural as well as socio-political values and institutions. distinction between the two contexts was, of course, elaborated by Karl Popper in an attempt to separate the psychology and sociology of knowledge from the logic of knowledge, the former concerned with empirical facts, the latter only with logical relations. Thus, Popper not only had a philosophical concern but also a political one which alone will interest us here. This concern is revealed not so much in his philosophical work, Die Logik der Forschung, but in his political work, The Open Society and its Enemies, a book he refers to as his war effort, a context of discovery which is important to be kept in mind.'
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