Abstract

MORENO-CAMACHO, MANUEL ALEJANDRO  and  GOMEZ-GALLEGO, JOHN JAMES. Subject, knowledge and truth. CS [online]. 2018, n.25, pp.31-50. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i25.2688.

What is the place of subjectivity in the production of objective knowledge? More than proposing a definitive answer for this question, in this article we address the problematic relationship between subject, knowledge and truth. In order to do this, we draw upon arguments from the sociology of scientific knowledge, the philosophy of science, and psychoanalysis. In doing so, we situate the characteristics of the sciences as social practices, scientific knowledge as provisional truths inscribed in discursive matrices, and truth as an ideal unfathomable through attempts at generalization, positioning its status as secondary to the individuality of the subject.

Keywords : Subject; Knowledge; Truth; Epistemology; Psychoanalysis.

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