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Byron Kaldis Beijing 2010. Technologized Science. Mono-Scientific overconfidence Technical engineering epistemically privileged Totalized Science Technoscience replacing both pure and applied science “Transforming nature”. Technology and Values.
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Byron Kaldis Beijing 2010 Technologized Science
Mono-Scientific overconfidence • Technical engineering epistemically privileged • Totalized Science • Technoscience replacing both pure and applied science • “Transforming nature”
Technology and Values • Understanding TechnoScience (TS) is not unrelated to ethical issues • Dominant TS shapes its own ends • Alternative Prognoses: • (a) evils of technology are not peculiarly modern • (b) Technology on its own is not always evil
(c) Modern TS alone is responsible for the evils of science • (d) what is 'natural’ as opposed to technically produced? • (e) the evaluative criterion of TS is its own epistemological authority
POST-INDUTRIAL SOCIETIES AND TechnoScience • (1) THE CENTRALITY OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE • (2) THE PREVALENCE OF INTELLECTUAL TECHNOLOGY
Critical Points • Economic forces endogenous to technoscientifically driven knowledge? • A new intellectual technology? • Doubtful whether contemporary TS is losing its revolutionary character, becoming merely instrumental • Epistemic vs. Political Conclusions
Back to Values • Non-Instrumentality • Circularity • Bell’s diagnoses: • “post-industrial society will harness science more directly to instrumental purposes” • “society is left with no transcendent ethos to provide some appropriate sense of purpose, no anchorage that can provide stable meaning for people.”