When philosophy of science began as a professional field in the late 1940s, contributions from Latin America joined the forefront of the international debate right away. Philosophers of science from the subcontinent have ...

This article presents the results of a piece of research that analyzed the views on the nature of science (NOS) among student teachers enrolled in programs of Primary Education at two public universities in Spain. Previous ...

Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing area of science and technology, which deals with the application, production and processing of materials with sizes less than 100nm (a nanometer being one billionth of a meter). In ...

Aims: To study in popular science books for children the stylistic selections that facilitate the passage from common sense to scientific knowledge. To provide a pragmatic explanation of the syntactic restrictions that ...

The current consideration of technology as "applied science", this is to say, as something that comes "after" science, justifies the lack of attention paid to technology in science education. In our paper we question this ...

In fin de siècle Argentina a secularist ideology of science was part of the positivist world view espoused by liberals and socialists. Between the years 1910 and 1935, a period in which the Catholic Church experienced a ...

Neste artigo, fazemos uma discussão de caráter geral sobre atividades recentes de divulgação científica no Brasil, em especial sobre as iniciativas de promover aproximações entre ciência e público. Realizamos uma revisão ...

The biomedical sciences need philosophy on at least two levels. Firstly, we can find strong arguments that recognize the need for philosophy on a theoretical level, such as the development of scientific theories that in ...

In August 2012 a transgenic soy producer and a pesticide spraying pilot were sentenced to three years of conditional prison for potential pollution and harm to public health in Cordoba, Argentina. This was the first case ...

El presente artículo enfoca desde una perspectiva crítica la prospectiva en ciencia y tecnología. En primer lugar, describe cómo para la ciencia los nuevos avances, los descubrimientos y los cambios de paradigmas son ...