O objetivo central deste trabalho foi investigar como a Cinética Química foi sendo apropriada pelos livros didáticos destinados ao Ensino Médio, em um determinado período de tempo (1929-2004), através do estudo do desenvolvimento histórico dos conceitos químicos envolvidos neste tema. Outro objetivo foi o de identificar as concepções sobre ciência veiculadas pelos livros didáticos ao tratarem o tema Cinética Química. O modelo adotado para a análise dos livros didáticos está baseado na linha de pesquisa desenvolvida por Níaz (2001) e Justi (1997; 1999), que se baseia na história e filosofia da ciência para entender o tratamento dado aos conceitos químicos pelo livro didático. Para isso, foi utilizada a metodologia de Imre Lakatos, da reconstrução racional do conhecimento científico, para analisar a evolução histórica das idéias sobre Cinética Química. A reconstrução histórica foi feita a partir de pesquisas de historiadores da ciência, artigos de pesquisadores e artigos originais dos cientistas que estiveram envolvidos no estudo da cinética química. Foram propostos quatro Programas de Investigação Científica que representam o conhecimento científico sobre a Cinética Química no período de 1850 até 1935, ano em que foi proposta a teoria do estado de transição. Tais Programas foram utilizados para evidenciar os níveis de explicação teórica atingidos em vinte livros didáticos. As concepções de ciência apresentadas pelos livros didáticos foram analisadas sob o ponto de vista de duas perspectivas filosóficas: a empirista/indutivista e a racionalista. Os livros didáticos até a década de 60 se dedicam a explicar a influência de concentração nas reações químicas, apresentando justificativas em termos empíricos e matemáticos, mas não em termos moleculares. A Partir do final dos anos 60 começam a aparecer explicações em termos das teorias de colisão e do estado de transição. As explicações em termos de energia de ativação ou barreira de energia sobre o efeito da temperatura na velocidade das reações também começam a aparecer nos livros a partir do final da década de 60. Com relação às concepções de ciência, pôde-se perceber que e a perspectiva filosófica predominante nos livros didáticos é a empirista/indutivista, independentemente da época em que foram editados, o que parece revelar que os autores não levaram em consideração as mudanças de perspectiva que ocorreram durante esse período. / The main aim of the present study is to investigate how the didactic transposition of knowledge on chemical reactions kinetics happened in high school textbooks published during the period from 1929 to 2004. This work was carried out by an analysis of the historical development of the chemical concepts related to this subject. Another objective was to identify the concepts about science that are conveyed by textbooks to present the subject of chemical kinetics. The model adopted for the analysis of the textbooks is based on the research line of Níaz (2001) and Justi (1997; 1999), which is based in the history and philosophy of science to understand the approach adopted by textbooks to present chemical concepts. The method of rational reconstruction of the scientific knowledge, by Imre Lakatos, was used to analyze the historical evolution of the ideas about chemical kinetics. Four scientific investigation programs that represent the scientific knowledge about chemical kinetics from 1850 to 1935, year when the theory of the transition state was presented, were proposed. These programs were used to highlight the level of theoretical explanation reached in twenty textbooks. The concepts of science presented by the textbooks were examined in the light of two philosophical perspectives: the empirical/inductive and the rationalist. The textbooks published until the sixties were dedicated to explain the effect of concentration on chemical reactions in terms of empirical and mathematical grounds, rather than on a molecular basis. From the end of the sixties, explanations based on the collision and transition state theories began to emerge. Moreover, during this period the concept of activation energy barrier was applied to explain the effect of temperature on chemical reaction rates. The philosophical approach to the concepts of science prevailing in textbooks seems to be the empirical/inductive one regardless of the period when these books were edited, revealing that the authors did not consider the changes in perspective that occurred during this period.

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T04:58:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silveira_RoberisonWittgensteinDiasda_D.pdf: 4231278 bytes, checksum: 7618a5ec10784fd8dfa0a911c5f81cdb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Humboldt incorpora muitos legados do seu contexto científico, estético e filosófico. Aparentemente contraditórias, na verdade excludentes, essas vias não podem sem qualquer dificuldade serem aproximadas, na medida em que partem de noções cosmológicas distintas e compreendem um conjunto diversificado de diretrizes e pressupostos conceituais. Mas, nessa aparente desarmonia, toma forma uma nova composição científica, marcada pela associação entre razão e sensibilidade, ciência e estética, descrição e explicação causal, mecanicismo e teleologia. Como base para essa integração inovadora, Humboldt assimila a fundamentação ontológico-metafísica oferecida por Schelling, além da concepção de homem schilleriana e da goethiana concepção de forma. A tese que defendemos é que essa confluência de pressupostos e métodos se harmonize sob o conceito de paisagem e que, nesse domínio, tenha pretendido Humboldt compreender e apaziguar na ciência o embate ontológico que acompanha o saber filosófico desde sua origem, e que é exatamente o ponto alto de toda a transformação operada no pensamento do período: o embate entre as cosmovisões materialista e idealista. Mais do que isso, sustentamos que esta articulação original sob o conceito de paisagem fundamentou a construção moderna do saber geográfico, a despeito de uma série de interpretações que pretendem subtrair de Humboldt seu papel estruturador e sistematizador. Nessa releitura da gênese da Geografia moderna, pretendemos também mostrar, ao final da tese, como essa origem ainda incompreendida pode e deve oferecer novos horizontes para o saber e fazer geográficos contemporâneos / Abstract: Humboldt incorporates many legacies of his scientific, aesthetical, and philosophical context. Seemingly contradictory, indeed exclusive, these pathways can't be approximated without any difficult, whereas start from different cosmological notions and embrace a diverse range of guidelines and conceptual assumptions. But, in this apparent disharmony, takes shape a new scientific composition, characterized by the association between reason and sensibility, science and aesthetics, description and causal explanation, mechanism and teleology. As a basis for this innovative integration, Humboldt assimilated the ontological-metaphysical foundation offered by Schelling, addition Schiller's conception of man and goethean conception of form. We defended the thesis that this confluence of assumptions and methods is harmonized under the landscape concept and that, in this field, Humboldt has attempted understand and appease in his science the ontological divergence that comes from philosophy since its origin, and that is exactly the high point of the whole transformation operated in the thought of the period: the divergence between the idealist and materialist cosmoviews. More than that, we argue that this articulation under the landscape concept founded modern construction of geographic knowledge, despite a series of interpretation that want to subtract from Humboldt his structured and systematic role. In this reinterpretation of the genesis of modern Geography, we also wanted show how this misunderstood source can and should offer new horizons for the contemporary geographic knowledge / Doutorado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Doutor em Geografia

[pt] O tema desta pesquisa diz respeito ao problema da demarcação entre ciência e não-ciência, proposto no âmbito da filosofia da ciência anglo-saxã do século XX. O estudo do caso da astrologia mostra-se relevante para enriquecer essa discussão demarcatória e revelar suas dificuldades, considerando-se que vários filósofos da ciência, como Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Thagard e Laudan, usaram a astrologia como exemplo ao tentar dar conta do problema da demarcação ou problematizar essa questão. O objetivo desta dissertação é, portanto, esclarecer um pouco mais o problema da demarcação da ciência, analisando especialmente o caso da astrologia, e examinar a relevância dessa questão no contexto atual dos estudos sobre a ciência. Com essa inserção no diálogo epistemológico contemporâneo, pretende-se contribuir para um melhor entendimento não só do que é ciência e de quais são suas fronteiras, mas também para a construção de uma visão mais precisa e menos preconceituosa da astrologia. / [en] This research concerns with the demarcation problem which was proposed by the Anglo-Saxon philosophy of science in the twentieth century. Astrology as a case study is relevant to enrich this debate and to reveal its dificulties since various philosophers of science - as Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Thagard, and Laudan - have used astrology as an example to account for demarcation problem or to question it. Therefore the goal of this dissertation is to clarify a little bit more the problem of distinguishing science from non- science, in particular the case of astrology, and to examine the pertinence of this discussion in the current context of the science studies. This survey is inserted into the contemporary epistemological dialogue and it intends to contribute to a better understanding of what is science and which are your frontiers, as well to give a more precise and less prejudicing view of astrology.

Borderline conscious creatures are neither definitely conscious nor definitely not conscious. In this thesis, I explain what borderline consciousness is and why it poses a significant epistemological challenge to scientists who investigate phenomenal consciousness as a natural kind. When these scientists discover more than one overlapping kind in their samples of conscious creatures, how can they identify the kind to which all and only conscious creatures belong? After assessing three pessimistic responses, I argue that different groups of scientists can legitimately use the concept of phenomenal consciousness to refer to different kinds, in accord with their empirical interests. They can thereby resolve three related impasses on the status of borderline conscious creatures, the neural structure of phenomenal consciousness, and the possibility of artificial consciousness. The thesis has three parts: First, I analyse the concept of borderline consciousness. My analysis counters several arguments which conclude that borderline consciousness is inconceivable. Then I explain how borderline consciousness produces the multiple kinds problem in consciousness science. Second, I assess three recent philosophical responses to this problem. One response urges scientists to eliminate the concept of consciousness, while another judges them to be irremediably ignorant of the nature of consciousness. The final response concludes that scientific progress is limited by the concept's referential indeterminacy. I argue that these responses are too pessimistic, though they point to a more promising approach. Third, I propose that empirically constrained stipulation can solve the multiple kinds problem. Biologists face the same problem because of their longstanding controversy over what counts as a species. Building on new arguments for stipulating the reference of species concepts, I demonstrate that this use of stipulation in biology is neither epistemologically complacent nor metaphysically capricious; it also need not sow semantic confusion. Then I defend its use in consciousness science. My approach is shown to be consistent with our understanding of natural kinds, borderline cases, and phenomenal consciousness.

Ma recherche a pour but de faire le point sur les derniers développements de l’historical epistemology, modalité d’enquête de la connaissance qui a émergée au cours du XX siècle au sein de l’épistémologie française et qui reste actuellement active dans une variété de formes. En dépit de son succès auprès de nombreux auteurs contemporains, l’épistémologie historique ne bénéficie encore d’aucune systématisation ni d’aucune liste d’auteurs et d’ouvrages canoniques. Mon travail de thèse se propose de traiter directement la question même de la légitimité et de l’originalité de ce type d’épistémologie en discutant sa nature, sa méthodologie et son unité. En analysant les ouvrages les plus importants dans ce domaine, j’accorderai un rôle central d’un coté à Michel Foucault et de l’autre à Ian Hacking, qui, à maintes égards, ont entretenu des rapports complexes, controversés, et pourtant révélateurs, avec l’épistémologie historique. Les deux phases de l’épistémologie historique, l’une « originaire » et l’autre « contemporaine », seront analysées dans un rapport biunivoque, dans un souci de clarification réciproque. Le développement à l’étranger de l’épistémologie historique dans sa phase contemporaine a créé une sorte de vide et une perte d’intérêt étonnante dans son lieu de naissance. La reconnexion de ce type d’épistémologie au cadre philosophique originel de son émergence représente l’occasion de ré-ouvrir le débat en France. / What is historical epistemology? Why does this field, despite its current proliferation,seem to be permanently haunted by questions relative to its nature, limits and ultimatetasks? What kind of historicization is at stake in this sort of inquiry? What is the relationbetween contemporary historical epistemology, as it is practiced by a growing number ofEnglish-speaking historians and philosophers of science, and the French “tradition” ofépistémologie historique? To address these questions, my research aims to provide arecursive analysis demonstrating how the two phases of historical epistemology, the“classical” and the “contemporary”, can clarify each other. In this process, the“archaeological method” of Michel Foucault, which draws on and transforms fundamentalinsights by Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, will be shown to exert an enduringinfluence on the field, especially through Ian Hacking and his philosophical cum historicalanalyses of probability. / Che cos’è l’epistemologia storica? Perchè questo campo, nonostante la sua proliferazione attuale, sembra essere permanentemente minacciato da questioni relative alla sua natura, ai suoi limiti e ai suoi obiettivi ultimi? Che tipo di storicizzazione caratterizza questo tipo di indagine? Qual è la relazione tra l’epistemologia storica contemporanea, come è praticata da un numero crescente di storici e filosofi della scienza di lingua inglese, e la tradizione francese dell’épistémologie historique? Per affrontare tali questioni, la mia ricerca intende fornire un’analisi ricorsiva che dimostri come le due fasi dell’epistemologia storica, quella “classica” e quella “contemporanea”, possono chiarificarsi reciprocamente. In questo processo, il “metodo archeologico” di Foucault, che trae spunto da e trasforma intuizioni fondamentali di Gaston Bachelard e Georges Canguilhem, sarà mostrato nella sua influenza su questo campo di indagine, specialmente attraverso Ian Hacking e le sue analisi storico-filosofiche della probabilità.

Die Dissertation wendet sich insbesondere der Rolle der Ökonomik auf der Metaebene der wissenschaftsphilosophischen Argumentation zu. Ziel ist zu klären, welchen Erklärungsgehalt ökonomische Instrumente in der Wissenschaftsphilosophie haben können. Mit der Economics of Scientific Knowledge (ESK) hat sich seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ein Literaturzweig herausgebildet, in dem genau diese Zielsetzung verfolgt wird, nämlich das Erkenntnisobjekt der wissenschaftlichen Koordination mit unterschiedlichen Methoden und Instrumenten der Ökonomik zu untersuchen. Es wird gezeigt, dass den analytischen Modellen der ESK einige Probleme inhärent sind, die prinzipiell durch neue Methoden und Instrumente gelöst werden können. Als ein geeigneter Kandidat wird die Agentenbasierte Modellierung (ABM) identifiziert, die eine realitätsnähere Abbildung der Akteure, eine ergebnisoffene Modellierung ihrer Entscheidungen und des Koordinationsprozesses erlaubt. Der Analyse von der ESK zuzuordnenden analytischen und agentenbasierten Modellen folgt im zweiten Teil der Dissertation die Programmierung einer eigenen ABM Continuous Opinions of Satisficing Agents and Discrete Actions (COSDA) mit Hilfe der Multi-Agenten-Programmiersprache NetLogo. In der heuristischen ABM COSDA werden zentrale wissenschaftsphilosophische und ökonomische Prämissen, die im ersten Teil der Arbeit als Problemfelder identifiziert wurden, aufgegeben. Mit Modellierung heterogener Agententypen, die - mit unterschiedlichen Präferenzen und Verhaltensheuristiken ausgestattet - miteinander interagieren, wird eine mögliche Mikrospezifikation für die Emergenz eines Makrophänomens erzeugt. Das Makrophänomen, d.h. die unterschiedlichen Resultate im wissenschaftlichen Koordinationsprozess, sind aus den selbstverstärkenden Effekten der Interaktion erklärbar, aber nicht vorhersehbar. Die Mikrospezifikation kann als relevante, durch eine kohärente Fiktion formulierte Möglichkeit interpretiert werden, die anders als analytische Modelle der ESK kein rationales Entscheidungskalkül der Agenten voraussetzt.

This study aims to trace points of intersection between the too often divorced disciplines of literature, continental philosophy, and the hard sciences in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love.” In short, this thesis will not only explore how such conversations surface within the short story, but will also serve as an explication of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of body and space, and the theory of epigenetics. Through these explications, the thesis itself will also gear one discipline towards the other as both theories intimately bind the environment with the body, and the body with the environment. Thus, the body and the environment are not separate and passive, but active and intertwined in a manner much like the aforementioned disciplines I posit are. Therefore, the goal of this thesis is to first postulate that such conversations between literature, philosophy, and science are already occurring, and as such, stress that such conversations need further discussion and exploration.

abstract: Over the last half century, global healthcare practices have increasingly relied on technological interventions for the detection, prevention, and treatment of disability and disease. As these technologies become routinized and normalized into medicine, the social and political dimensions require substantial consideration. Such consideration is particularly critical in the context of ableism, in which bodily and cognitive differences such as disabilities are perceived as deviance and demand intervention. Further, neoliberalism, with its overwhelming tendency to privatize and individualize, creates conditions under which social systems abdicate responsibility for social issues such as ableism, shifting accountability onto individuals to prevent or mitigate difference through individualized means. It is in this context that this dissertation, informed by critical disability studies and feminist science and technology studies, examines the understanding and enactment of disability and responsibility in relation to biomedical technologies. I draw from qualitative empirical data from three distinct case studies, each focused on a different biomedical technology: prenatal genetic screening and diagnosis, deep brain stimulation, and do-it-yourself artificial pancreas systems. Analyzing semi-structured interviews and primary documents through an inductive framework that takes up elements of Grounded Theory and hermeneutic phenomenology, this research demonstrates a series of tensions. As disability becomes increasingly associated with discrete biological characteristics and medical professionals claim a growing authority over disabled bodyminds, users of these technologies are caught in a double bind of personal responsibility and epistemic invalidation. Technologies, however, do not occupy either exclusively oppressive or liberatory roles. Rather, they are used with full acknowledgement of their role in perpetuating medical authority and neoliberal paradigms as well as their individual benefit. Experiential and embodied knowledge, particular when in tension with clinical knowledge, is invalidated as a transgression of expert authority. To reject these invalidations, communities cohering around subaltern knowledges emerge in resistance to the mismatched priorities and expectations of medical authority, creating space for alternative disabled imaginaries. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology 2020

Orientador: Sandra Regina Teodoro Gatti / Resumo: No Ensino de Química, a abordagem tradicional está presente no desenvolvimento de vários conteúdos, sendo um deles os elementos químicos da tabela periódica, que foram o foco desta pesquisa. Consideramos que uma abordagem histórico-filosófica acerca dos estudos sobre esse tema pode suscitar discussões e reflexões que possibilitam o desenvolvimento do pensamento crítico dos alunos, além de aprimorar a compreensão dessa temática por parte deles, pois a História e Filosofia da Ciência (HFC) tem sido pensada como uma possibilidade de abordagem recorrente no Ensino de Ciências (EC). Entre os vários fatores que dificultam sua inserção no EC, pesquisas apontam a falta de material didático adequado como um dos principais. Dessa forma, optamos por desenvolver uma História em Quadrinhos (HQs), pois estas possuem uma linguagem diferenciada, que mescla o visual e o verbal e vem conquistando espaço nas pesquisas sobre o EC. A partir disso, o objetivo da pesquisa visa responder os seguintes questionamentos: 1) de que maneira o contato de alunos do Ensino Médio com uma HQ acerca da história das pesquisas sobre o elemento químico Lítio, elaborada a partir de reflexões sobre a HFC, pode propiciar o aperfeiçoamento de noções referentes ao processo científico e dos aspectos que envolvem a ideia de elemento químico?; 2) Quais as dificuldades encontradas ao longo desse processo, e como tais informações podem auxiliar no aprimoramento do material didático e do roteiro de trabalho propostos?. Para ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In Chemistry Teaching, the traditional approach is present in the development of various contents, one of which is the chemical elements of the periodic table, which were the focus of this research. We believe that a historical-philosophical approach to studies on this topic can incite discussions and reflections that can enable students to develop critical thinking, in addition to improving their understanding of this theme, as the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) has been recurrently thought of as a possible approach to Science Teaching (ST). Among the several factors that hinder its insertion in ST, researches point out the lack of adequate didactic material as one of the main reasons. Thus, we chose to develop a comic story, as they have a different language, which mixes visual and verbal languages and has been gaining space in ST researches. Based on this, the objective of the research aims to answer the following questions: 1) How the contact of high school students with a comic story about the research history on the chemical element Lithium, based on reflections from HPS, can promote the improvement of notions related to the scientific process and to the aspects that involve the idea of chemical element?; 2) What are the difficulties encountered during this process, and how can this information help improve the didactic material and the proposed work flow?. For this, we developed a Case Study, whose participants were high school freshmen at a public school. The... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre