Nature of Science as means of resistance against Anti-science movements: structural realism as a counterpoint to the epistemic relativism

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Felipe Prado Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gurgel, Ivã
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/fisica/article/view/73880

This work addresses questions situated in the debate of the Nature of Science (NOS) on science teaching. We argue that the metascientific contents which shape the historical-philosophical approaches must be updated in order to face the political, social and educational challenges imposed by our times, namely the antiscience movements and exacerbated relativist speeches. We advocate for a critical discourse to naive positivist views of science, but that at the same time is capable of accounting for its epistemic virtues, configuring a resistance strategy against exaggerated forms of epistemic relativism. More specifically, we situate this debate within the issue of the scientific change, a topic of the philosophy of science that dialogues with the subjects considered relevant in the teaching of Nature of Science. We present the contributions of the structural realism for the construction of a moderate speech relative to the dilemma about the provisory and discontinuous aspect of science in one hand, and its possibility of progress and commitment with the truth and reality on the other hand.