Scientists, Democracy and Society

Barrotta, Pierluigi

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“…The idea hinted at by this type of cooperation (i.e. the institution of a single community of inquirers) is developed more in detail in Barrotta (2018). 4.…”

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Expertise, Relevance and Types of Knowledge

Barrotta

Montuschi

2018

Social Epistemology

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In this paper, we argue that the formulation of typical expert judgementshere referred to as 'judgement calls'entails figuring out how to apply 'general knowledge' to specific circumstances (what we call the 'relevance query'). This requires wisdom, in its original Aristotelian sense, on the part of the scientific expert, as knowledge of laws and initial conditions is not sufficient to make judgement calls. Experts need to take into consideration factors coming from 'outside' the remit of scientific theory, thereby crossing the divide between empirical evidence and socio-political input (what we call the 'expert query'). Arguing against some form of the fact-value distinction is far from an original move, but we will do so both by avoiding the conclusion that expert judgements are nothing but political (against the received view in the sociology of science), and by advocating a somewhat novel perspective. We will claim that expert scientific knowledge proves to be inadequate when it is not integrated with local knowledge, which we define as the knowledge of all factors, which are deemed relevant to the application of general knowledge to specific circumstances. The possession and role of this type of knowledge, though partly an empirical (or sociologically situated) question, can be justified by epistemological reasons.

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“…The idea hinted at by this type of cooperation (i.e. the institution of a single community of inquirers) is developed more in detail in Barrotta (2018). 4.…”

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Montuschi

2018

Social Epistemology

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“…To establish connections between facts and values (or science and morality) in a single framework of study requires transdisciplinary research, since both elements traditionally belong to separate domains of inquiry. These difficulties are reviewed extensively within the context of ecology in Latour (2004), and of science, technology, and democracy in Barrotta (2018).…”

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Technological Innovation and Democracy in the Design of Earthquake-proof Dome Buildings in Yogyakarta

Yuliar¹,

Riyadi²,

Sari³

2018

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A settlement may be viewed as a sociotechnical network consisting of buildings and social groups that together performs a certain function. A key question that has invited considerable debate in recent literature is how a collection of human and nonhuman elements converge to jointly function, thus, delineating the boundary between indoor and outdoor environments. The purpose of this paper is to address this question by employing actor-network theory (ANT) to investigate the design and construction of earthquake-proof dome buildings within the late 2000s Sleman Regency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The design trajectory of these domes was shaped by local and global actors, and negotiated the boundary between humans and their environment. The empirical findings in this paper identify the disentanglement of certain local groups during the design and construction process, which led to a fragile indoor-outdoor boundary, and contested the very uses of these structures. This paper discusses the issue of bringing technological innovation into a democratic composition of a collective, chiefly by introducing ANT in the design and construction of Yogyakarta's earthquake-proof dome buildings. It also seeks to improve both scholarly understandings and existing post-disaster reconstruction practices, in turn.

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Science and Space in Society

Spiga

2020

Space and Society

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Scientists, Democracy and Society

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