Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable?
This paper deals with the following question: What features of modern natural science are responsible for the fact that, of all forms of science, this form is technologically exploitable? The three notions: concept of nature, epistemic ideal, and experiment, suggest the most important components of...
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| description | This paper deals with the following question: What features of modern natural science are responsible for the fact that, of all forms of science, this form is technologically exploitable? The three notions: concept of nature, epistemic ideal, and experiment, suggest the most important components of my answer. I will argue, first, that only the peculiar interplay of the modern concept of nature with an epistemic ideal attuned to it can cast experiment in the specific, highly central role it plays in the pursuit of knowledge about nature. It will then become clear that the form of science in which experiment plays such a role will, necessarily, prove technologically exploitable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5fc03cdaa4fd4ea58907c780dfc0540d2022-12-21T18:20:16ZengPadova University PressJournal of Ethics and Legal Technologies2612-49202019-05-011122310.14658/pupj-jelt-2019-1-1Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable?Hoyningen-Huene, P.0Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Philosophy Universität Zürich, Department of EconomicsThis paper deals with the following question: What features of modern natural science are responsible for the fact that, of all forms of science, this form is technologically exploitable? The three notions: concept of nature, epistemic ideal, and experiment, suggest the most important components of my answer. I will argue, first, that only the peculiar interplay of the modern concept of nature with an epistemic ideal attuned to it can cast experiment in the specific, highly central role it plays in the pursuit of knowledge about nature. It will then become clear that the form of science in which experiment plays such a role will, necessarily, prove technologically exploitable.https://jelt.padovauniversitypress.it/system/files/papers/jelt-01-01-01.pdfepistemic idealexperimentnaturesciencetechnology |
| spellingShingle | Hoyningen-Huene, P. Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable? Journal of Ethics and Legal Technologies epistemic ideal experiment nature science technology |
| title | Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable? |
| title_full | Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable? |
| title_fullStr | Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable? |
| title_short | Why Is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable? |
| title_sort | why is modern science technologically exploitable |
| topic | epistemic ideal experiment nature science technology |
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