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"The renaissance of Aristotle's Topics in the the Renaissance: dialectic between demonstration and rhetoric"

Organiza

Red EPISOC: Epistemología y sociedad

Ponente

Marta Spranzi (University of Versailles St -Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Fecha

28-04-2017

Hora

10 horas

Lugar

Sala de Juntas, Módulo VII, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Descripción

The scientific process is usually seen as an evolving relation between two entities, Nature and the Scientist (or the Scientific Community): the latter conducts an empirical inquiry on the former, and thus constructs a representation which it constantly attempts to improve. I suggest we reject this “monoscopic” view in favor of a “biscopic” model, in which the Scientist (or the Scientific Community) conducts two inquiries, one bearing on Nature, the other on the scientific corpus. This second model is no mere re-description of the first, as one might be tempted to think, and it provides a better account of the most frequent forms of scientific change. Memory research will be used to illustrate and defend it.

 

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