Comunidades Científicas são Agentes Epistêmicos?

Maurício Cavalcante Rios

doi:10.52521/az2am921

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Maurício Cavalcante Rios Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52521/az2am921

Keywords:

Comunidades Científicas, Grupos, Agência Epistêmica, Agência Coletiva, Materialismo Eliminativista

Abstract

The objective is to approach how the concept of group (scientific communities) is characterized as an epistemic agent. The problem is if the process of formation of beliefs and knowledge originates from individual epistemic agents or from collective agency? Our hypothesis is that if groups agency knowledge, then collective agency occurs through social epistemic norms. To this end, we analyze the concepts of group/community based on: a) George Ritzer in General Sociology; b) David Bloor in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; c) Thomas Kuhn in the Philosophy of Science; d) Markus Schlosser, José Aparecido Pereira and William Ramsey in the relationship between Agency and Eliminativist Materialism and e) Alvin Goldman and Frederick Schmitt in Social Epistemology. We consider that the nature of social knowledge is not the sum of individual minds, but involves an epistemic agency..

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