Reflexiones filosóficas sobre la ciencia de laboratorio

Abstract

The philosophers of science have for decades debated whether theories reveal the fundamental structure of the universe or whether they simply allow the prediction of future
events starting from the present behaviour of the phenomena. Helen Longino presents a
vision of science in which laboratory practices occupy the centre of the stage. A scenario
where current technologies are used to isolate, slice and recombine the phenomena in order
to interpret their operations. The construction of scientific knowledge, she affirms, takes
place socially through the competition or collaboration in nets of laboratories where the
role of common assumptions, values and beliefs are central.