What is science after all?

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  • Andréia Paula Ferreira Araujo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas - IFAM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31417/educitec.v1i01.32

Keywords:

história and philosophy givesscience, method, theory

Abstract

The paper presents the ideas developed by the author Alan Chalmers in the work entitled "What is science anyway?”.Considered one of the best introductions to philosophy of science today. The author explains in a didactic way the methods and concepts that characterize science, initially questioning the status assigned to scientific activity in the social context and the simplified view of the real aim of the fields of science. In the work the author tries to scrutinize the old orthodoxy of the philosophy of pre-Popperian science, following the presentation of the proposal of several philosophers of science and debates that unfolded on the status of truth. With quite friendly style in explaining various historical and current examples of science, the author aims to combat so-called "ideology of science", while acknowledging that his questioning of "what science is, after all?" Was presumptuous and that universal generalizations around this question not explain.

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Author Biography

Andréia Paula Ferreira Araujo, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas - IFAM

Possui Graduação em Pedagogia pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas (2001), Especialização em Metodologia do Ensino Superior pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas (2003). Atualmente é aluna regular do Mestrado Profissional em Ensino Tecnológico na Linha de Pesquisa 2: Recursos para o Ensino Técnico e Tecnológico. Tem experiência na área de Educação, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Educação e Tecnologia, Formação Continuada e Educação a Distância.

References

CHALMERS, Alan F. O que é ciência afinal? Tradução: Raul Filker: 1ª. Ed. – São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1993.

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Published

2015-05-26

How to Cite

ARAUJO, A. P. F. What is science after all?. Educitec - Journal of Studies and Research on Technological Teaching , Manaus, Brasil, v. 1, n. 01, 2015. DOI: 10.31417/educitec.v1i01.32. Disponível em: https://sistemascmc.ifam.edu.br/educitec/index.php/educitec/article/view/32. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.

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Vol. 1 No. 01 (2015): Journal of Studies and Research on Technological Education - EDUCITEC

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Review

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Received 2015-05-25
Accepted 2022-10-27
Published 2015-05-26