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Tópicos (México)
Print version ISSN 0188-6649
Tópicos (México) n.32 México Jul. 2007
https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v32i1.171
Artículos
Ciencia, tecnología y democracia
* Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. Correo electrónico: sfmar@filosoficas.unam.mx.
El concepto de público en Dewey permite reconciliar dos intuiciones en conflicto. Por un lado la idea de que la ciencia requiera de expertos entra en conflicto con la construcción de una sociedad democrática, y por la otra la idea de que las complejas sociedades del presente requieren para el desarrollo de la democracia de ciencia y tecnología. El concepto de público de Dewey permite superar ese conflicto en la medida en que permite superar la oposición tradicional en la filosofía de la tecnología (y en muchos estudios empíricos sobre tecnología) entre substantivistas y construccionistas.
Palabras clave: tecnología y democracia; democracia participativa y tecnología; tecnología y lo público; tecnología y ciencia pública
I claim that Dewey’s concept of public provides a way of reconciling two intuitions in conflict. On the one hand the idea that the reliance on experts conflicts with the development of democracy and on the other the idea that the development of democracy in the complex societies of the present requires of science and technology. The construction of the public in the sense of Dewey leads us to overcome the traditional opposition between substantivists and constructionists in the philosophy of technology (and in most empirical studies of technology) and thus allows for a way of reconciling the two intuitions.
Key words: technology and democracy; participative democracy and technology; technology and the public; public science and technology
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Recibido: 23 de Enero de 2007; Aprobado: 04 de Abril de 2007