Abstract

ORTEGA-CARO, Cristian. Socio-epistemic mechanisms and scientific practices in the critical rationalism of Karl Popper. discus.filos [online]. 2019, vol.20, n.34, pp.91-111. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2019.20.34.5.

From the epistemology of Karl Popper and the theory of Social Mechanisms, we present a model, placed from the technical space of scientific work that proposes a re-interpretation of the investigative practices. For this purpose, we advance a logic of "socio-epistemic mechanisms" that aims to re-signify the processes of falsifiability, demarcation and convention of Popperian epistemology, since they constitute processes and subprocesses that occur in very limited dimensions of scientific operations and decisions. With the above, it is intended to relieve the centrality of the internist dimension of scientific work, which implies thinking of a new rationalist critique, far from formal logic, but focused on the in situ or situational interpretation of knowledge production. It is what we might call a "low-level epistemology".

Keywords : Epistemic mechanisms; scientific practices; scientific production; Karl Popper; lowlevel epistemology.

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