The mission of science: a reflection around the fulfillment of its task

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  • María Inés Jara Navarro Author

Abstract

Modern man has aeeepted to be determined by prosperity and sueeess of seienees, with whieh he has also aeeepted to be a mere man, in fact, as Husserl has notieed. It beeomes imperative then, to ref1ect on the inherent limits of scientifie
undertakings with the interest to understand rus eapaeity in the fulfillment of this task and the problems relative to his union or not with other's knowledge. The limitations of seienee indicate the existenee of problems in their assignment that for fundamental reasons -theoretieal or praetieal- scienee is unable to solve. The cause is not an error of internal or external validity of seienee, but the way of organizing knowledge; a knowledge related to progress, blind and uneontrolled, incapable of reeognizing other's knowledge and, therefore other possibilities to approach to reality. A ref1ection on seientifie undertakings in relation to the aspeets previously indicated allows us to prevent the unrealistie expectations and alienations that have been provoked.

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Author Biography

María Inés Jara Navarro

Filósofa de la Universidad de San Buenaventura, Licenciada en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de La Sabana; Magister en Investigación y Tecnología Educativa; Magister en Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Profesora del Departamento de Filosofía del Instituto de Humanidades de la Universidad de La Sabana. Profesora de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas y Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Conferencista invitada por la Escuela Superior de Administración Pública -ESAP-, por la Universidad INCCA, por las Universidades La Gran Colombia y Externado de Colombia. Autora del libro Introducción al conocimiento científico y filosófico y de ponencias nacionales e internacionales, entre otras: El problema del método en las ciencias sociales, El pensamiento precientífico en las culturas prehispánicas, Límite y poder de la razón, Racionalidad y crisis, La investigación social: un nuevo enfoque.

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Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (1999)

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Filosofía

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