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Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences

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The sciences that universities and scientific societies developed during the modern era underwent a radical transformation over the twentieth century. They experienced a structural mutation that affects, above all, the organization of scientific practice, as well as the ways of producing, distributing, teaching, and using scientific knowledge. As a result, the technosciences, a hybrid between science and technology, have appeared. Because science has changed, the philosophy of science must also change. These are the basic hypotheses that I will use as a starting point for this contribution.

This paper has been written in the framework of the Research Project FFI 2008- 03599/FISO financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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Echeverria, J. (2012). Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences. In: Dieks, D., Gonzalez, W., Hartmann, S., Stöltzner, M., Weber, M. (eds) Probabilities, Laws, and Structures. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3030-4_24

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