Generic and Specific Traits of Sciences [Spanish]

Authors

  • David Alvargonzález Department of Philosophy University of Oviedo Spain

Keywords:

science, constitutive feature, distinctive feature, definition, categorial closure

Abstract

In this paper, I will discuss what specific traits distinguish sciences from other historical institutions. First I will review several philosophies conceiving sciences having in mind constitutive, but generic, features. This is the case when sciences are understood as explanation, as comprehension, as knowledge, as description, as representation, as construction, as cultural institution, as experimentation and elaboration of hypotheses, as theory, and as instrument of domination and intervention on reality. I put forward certain specific traits of theorems and scientific fields that allow us to distinguish sciences from other historical formations.

Author Biography

David Alvargonzález, Department of Philosophy University of Oviedo Spain

Department of Philosophy

University of Oviedo

Spain

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2019-07-23

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