| Grant number: | 07/53867-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| Start date: | March 01, 2008 |
| End date: | February 29, 2012 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology |
| Principal Investigator: | Pablo Rubén Mariconda |
| Grantee: | Pablo Rubén Mariconda |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Pesquisadores principais: | Marcos Barbosa de Oliveira ; Plinio Junqueira Smith |
| Associated research grant(s): | 10/52005-8 - Hugh Lacey | Swarthmore College - United States,
AV.EXT 10/50133-9 - Otávio Bueno | University of Miami - Estados Unidos, AV.EXT 09/54686-5 - Kenneth Liberman | university of Oregon - Estados Unidos, AV.EXT 08/57170-7 - Hugh Lacey | Swarthmore College - United States, AV.EXT |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 11/10758-2 - From values towards metrics: on quantitative criteria in the assessments of scientific production,
BE.PQ 08/07504-6 - The intellectual commons and the market, BP.MS |
Abstract
The central objective of the project, to be carried out during the period 2008-2111, is to investigate critically the roles played by ethical and social values, whether held by individuals or embodied in institutions, in current scientific and technological practices. This will encompass two sets of investigations. The first to concern the contemporary significance of technoscience, including the impact of its research and development on the processes and institutionalization of scientific research; the second, central aspects of the historical development of technoscience. Among the issues investigated in the first set will be: a) the changes that have occurred in recent decades in the modes of social production of technoscientific knowledge with the shift towards greater private (and less public) financing of research, b) the way in which the change affect the status of the values of objectivity, neutrality and autonomy that have traditionally been adhered to by the scientific community, c) the function of intellectual property rights in this process; d) some problems of contemporary technoscience: theoretical ones (e.g., the distinction between artificial and natural, biological identity) and practical (e.g., ethical criticisms, alternative proposals); and e) the relevance of alternatives to technoscientific practices (e.g., Agroecology) - and the roles of Bioethics and approaches influenced by the 'precautionary principle' - to the appraisal of the significance of these changes. Investigations of the second set will include: a) the idea of 'the control of nature' and the values of technological progress and its impact on shaping modem scientific research, b) relations between science and technology in modernity, especially the role played by machines and mechanistic ideas. Both groups of investigations will be strengthened by utilizing a model of scientific activity, that has been widely discussed and endorsed among the members of the research team, that it identifies rnutually reinforcing relations that exist between adopting particular methodological approaches in research and holding particular ethical and social values. The second objective of the project, no less important, is practical: to plan a series of events and publications, bringing together for constructive and rational discussion Brazilian (and other) scientists, philosophers and social scientists of divergent methodological approaches and ethical outlooks, in order to ensure that a wide range of viewpoints are considered in the investigations, and to explore how the results obtained may impact positively on scientific research, the teaching of science, and higher education. (AU)
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