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- Title
RIGOR Y OBJETIVIDAD COMO FUNDAMENTOS DE LA RACIONALIDAD DE LA FÍSICA EN EVANDRO AGAZZI.
- Authors
RIVERA GUERRERO, LINDA MARCELA; CASTELLANOS MUÑOZ, ARJUNA GABRIEL; GÓMEZ RODAS, CARLOS ANDRÉS
- Abstract
In current epistemology, there are two opposing attitudes towards the empirical sciences. On the one hand, they appear as an essential tool for the advancement of knowledge. On the other hand, there is doubt about the metaphysical and epistemological bases of this confidence in scientific knowledge, which has led science down paths of skepticism and pragmatism. This paper aims to contribute philosophically to the rationality and ontological status of physics, taking as a starting point some works of the philosopher of science Evandro Agazzi. The article presented here introduces Agazzi's thought and the core issues of his epistemology. It then defines the concepts of rigor and objectivity as understood by Agazzi, and finally establishes criteria of rigor and objectivity for physics, showing how they are verified in two classical experiments. Based on these ideas, it is shown that physics, as the science it is, has criteria of rigor and objectivity that allow it to effectively reach the real, thus responding to the formalist and pragmatist challenge. Thus, the article does not exhaust itself in a description of Agazzi's thought, but will apply his ideas to the concrete field of physics, making explicit ideas that have not been sufficiently made explicit by the Italian philosopher.
- Subjects
SCIENTIFIC knowledge; PHILOSOPHERS; THEORY of knowledge; OBJECTIVITY; PRAGMATISM; PHILOSOPHY of science
- Publication
Sophia, Colección de Filosofía de la Educación, 2024, Issue 37, p45
- ISSN
1390-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17163/soph.n37.2024.01