Epistemic Communities and Cutural Commitments in Relation to Otherness

Villarreal J.F. · Revista de Filosofia (Venezuela) (2022) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7296958

Resumen

The researcher's belonging to a scientific community implies benefits but also, simultaneously, opportunity costs. The latter include the impossibility of questioning the foundations that explain the corpus of premises and regulatory ideas by virtue of which such collective conceives itself as the creditor of a given “impartial” knowledge. This paper will provide, in this sense, an analysis of the epistemic and sociological possibilities that researchers count on so as to question the set of such premises without this necessari ly implying-in Kuhn's terms-the genesis of an abrupt paradigm change.

Instituciones: Universidad Continental