Les nanotechnologies, par-delà l’« indéfinissabilité »
Specialists in the humanities as well as in physics and chemistry quickly came to the conclusion that anyone could have his or her own definition of nanotechnology. This issue thus becomes part of what we see as a culture of “alternative facts” widely accepted in contemporary sciences. This paper is...
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| description | Specialists in the humanities as well as in physics and chemistry quickly came to the conclusion that anyone could have his or her own definition of nanotechnology. This issue thus becomes part of what we see as a culture of “alternative facts” widely accepted in contemporary sciences. This paper is an analysis of the difficulty of defining what is meant by nanoscience and nanotechnology. In the first part, it highlights the proliferation of definitions, due to economic struggles, taking into account the strategic stakes and the heterogeneous interests of the actors involved. In this second part, we seek to overcome this relativism by focusing on the tools that allow access to the nanoscale and the changes in properties inherent to the quantum scale. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-40b5c3a48903438eb1d3271bcb8cbab72023-12-06T15:53:37ZdeuÉditions KiméPhilosophia Scientiæ1281-24631775-42832019-02-01231193710.4000/philosophiascientiae.1730Les nanotechnologies, par-delà l’« indéfinissabilité »Thierno GuèyeSpecialists in the humanities as well as in physics and chemistry quickly came to the conclusion that anyone could have his or her own definition of nanotechnology. This issue thus becomes part of what we see as a culture of “alternative facts” widely accepted in contemporary sciences. This paper is an analysis of the difficulty of defining what is meant by nanoscience and nanotechnology. In the first part, it highlights the proliferation of definitions, due to economic struggles, taking into account the strategic stakes and the heterogeneous interests of the actors involved. In this second part, we seek to overcome this relativism by focusing on the tools that allow access to the nanoscale and the changes in properties inherent to the quantum scale.http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/1730 |
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