Ideas y Valores (Aug 2005)
The Scientific Research and the Problem of its Justification
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to show the conflict that has to do with epistemic and methodological issues involved in Boyle/Spinoza discussion, which allows to appreciate how it should be reassessed, at least two things, in the growing natural science of the Seventeenth Century: i) the preference of a hypothetical and practical knowledge instead of the mere pretence of an absolute certainty of the scientific knowledge. And ii) the investigation of the nature demands a careful experimentation that stresses the development of some epistemological approaches and different method to those to which most modern philosophers were accustomed to.
