| Grant number: | 13/18757-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Start date: | January 01, 2014 |
| End date: | November 30, 2017 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology |
| Principal Investigator: | Pablo Rubén Mariconda |
| Grantee: | Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). 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 |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 14/21912-0 - Tecnocracy, technology and democratization, BE.EP.DR |
Abstract Technology is currently widespread throughout every sphere of our lives, revealing and highlighting our dependence on it, and exerting a great influence over the very structuration we give to our own existences. Besides, its dissemination provoked and keeps provoking serious imbalances on the natural world, many of them irreparable. Thus, in order to enrich our understanding of it - a task of capital importance, considering such context -, we propose an analysis of technology from three different and interdependent perspectives: the ontological, the epistemological, and the ethic-political. We will test the hypothesis that takes technology as ontologically ambivalent, enclosing a plastic axiological nature, which could embody, promote and/or serve distinct social values. In that picture, every technical implementation would pose a question about its own legitimacy to the group which demanded it and/or which is the one where it will be introduced (regarding the perspective of values of that specific group). In the technical development level, legitimacy demands an epistemological reflection, related to the required knowledge for the effective implementation of those technical solutions which embody the social values we are trying to preserve or promote. In the level of the incidence over technical development process, as well as of the choice of the best available solution (the most suited one to the group specific values), legitimacy poses ethic-political challengers, related to some limits of real democracy people face in order to guide their own development as group. Hence, this research, analyzing technology according to these three perspectives, intends not only providing us a better understanding of technology, but also - and perhaps, mainly - enabling us to take part of the public search for the democratization of it. | |
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