Chapter published in:
Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge modelEdited by Jens Allwood, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile
[Controversies 16] 2020
► pp. 255–268
Science and democracy
A complex relationship
Olga Pombo | University of Lisbon
The article analyses the relationship between science and democracy on basis of a very specific point of view. Three arguments are put forward to defend that. In its historical origin, in its linguistic roots and in its institutional basis, science is (and continues to be) a democratic endeavor. The article very briefly discusses the decisive changings in the relation between science and political, economic and military power that took place during the XX century and stresses the cognitive relevance of a set of universal institutions which, all along the history of science, provide the conditions of possibility for science to exist and develop. Finally, even if today those universal institutions face big transformations, the possibility for science to remain a free democratic endeavor is questioned and argued.
Keywords: philosophy of science, science, democracy, cognitive universal institutions, historical a priori
, big science, technoscience, citizen science
Published online: 15 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/cvs.16.13pom
https://doi.org/10.1075/cvs.16.13pom
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