EPISTEMOLOGIA DE NANCY CARTWRIGHT: UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO AO DEBATE SOBRE A NATUREZA DA CIÊNCIA ATUAL

• Main Authors: Neusa Teresinha Massoni, Marco Antonio Moreira
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2014-01-01
• Series: Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=129532893006

This paper brings into discussion some of Nancy Cartwright’s ideas about the nature of current science. We believe that her formation focused on Mathematics challenges us to an innovative look at science, especially about the nature of the deepest and the most successful fundamental laws of Physics by reinterpreting concepts as causality, objectivity and realism. The ideas summarized on this paper don’t deal with the complexity of her epistemology. The aim is only to keep the course of the epistemological debate and instigate new thoughts, mostly to physics teachers. This is done by suggesting that the philosophy of science, as well as science itself, which does not have final questions, but instead keeps in march and continues its evolution.