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Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon
This paper aims to contribute to the attempts to clarify and classify the vague notion of “technosciences” from a historical perspective. A key question that is raised is as follows: Does Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of the modern age, provide a hitherto largely undiscovered programmat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22207829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0104-z |
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description | This paper aims to contribute to the attempts to clarify and classify the vague notion of “technosciences” from a historical perspective. A key question that is raised is as follows: Does Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of the modern age, provide a hitherto largely undiscovered programmatic position, which might facilitate a more profound understanding of technosciences? The paper argues that nearly everything we need today for an ontologically well-informed epistemology of technoscience can be found in the works of Bacon—this position will be called epistemological real-constructivism. Rather than realist or constructivist, empiricist or rationalist, Bacon’s position can best be understood as real-constructivist since it challenges modern dichotomies. Reflection upon the contemporary relevance of Bacon could contribute to the expanding and critical discussion on technoscience. In the following I will reconstruct the term “technoscience”. My finding is that at least four different understandings or types of the term “technoscience” co-exist. In a second step, I will analyze and elaborate on Bacon’s epistemological position. I will identify central elements of the four different understandings in Bacon’s work. Finally, I will conclude that the epistemology of technoscience is, indeed, very old—it is the epistemological position put forward by Bacon. |
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spelling | pubmed-32343502011-12-27 Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon Schmidt, Jan C. Poiesis Prax Focus This paper aims to contribute to the attempts to clarify and classify the vague notion of “technosciences” from a historical perspective. A key question that is raised is as follows: Does Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of the modern age, provide a hitherto largely undiscovered programmatic position, which might facilitate a more profound understanding of technosciences? The paper argues that nearly everything we need today for an ontologically well-informed epistemology of technoscience can be found in the works of Bacon—this position will be called epistemological real-constructivism. Rather than realist or constructivist, empiricist or rationalist, Bacon’s position can best be understood as real-constructivist since it challenges modern dichotomies. Reflection upon the contemporary relevance of Bacon could contribute to the expanding and critical discussion on technoscience. In the following I will reconstruct the term “technoscience”. My finding is that at least four different understandings or types of the term “technoscience” co-exist. In a second step, I will analyze and elaborate on Bacon’s epistemological position. I will identify central elements of the four different understandings in Bacon’s work. Finally, I will conclude that the epistemology of technoscience is, indeed, very old—it is the epistemological position put forward by Bacon. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011-12-03 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3234350/ /pubmed/22207829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0104-z Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Focus Schmidt, Jan C. Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon |
title | Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon |
title_full | Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon |
title_fullStr | Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon |
title_full_unstemmed | Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon |
title_short | Toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: Probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of Francis Bacon |
title_sort | toward an epistemology of nano-technosciences: probing technoscience from a historical perspective: on today’s surprising prevalence and relevance of francis bacon |
topic | Focus |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22207829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10202-011-0104-z |
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