Risks, incertainties and accidents: facing technoscientific problems

• Grant number: 13/21423-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: March 10, 2014
• End date: April 09, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology
• Principal Investigator: Pablo Rubén Mariconda
• Grantee: Pablo Rubén Mariconda
• Visiting researcher: Natividade Helena Mateus Jeronimo
• Visiting researcher institution: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/51614-3 - Origins and significance of technoscience: on relations among science, technology and society, AP.TEM

Abstract

The research visit is compounded by two sets of activities: (1) a set of four talks which are dedicated to matters under de the general label of the Thematic Project 2011/51614-3, treating of the risks, uncertainties, and accidents (disasters) to which are open the great technoscientific operations such as the production of atomic energy; (2) an effective collaboration already on going to the conjoint edition of a special issue in English of the review Scientiae Studia. It will publish the contributions to Track 19 of the "18th International Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Technology", held in Lisbon, Portugal, 04-06, July, 2013. (AU)