Abstract
Nowadays, in the science-related community, an urgent need has emerged to clarify a crisis of the methodological paradigm known as “Scientific Method”. Such a crisis, arising from some recent striking experimental results achieved in experimental sciences, undermines the very foundations of knowledge, with potential serious consequences to the development of future technological applications. In this work, the crisis is analysed within an historical survey on the evolution of the Scientific Method. Furthermore, the role played by cross-hybridization between sciences and technological development is highlighted, throughout the last three centuries, as a possible factor in overcoming that crisis.
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Hesse (2005).
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Farrington (2000).
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Rossi (2001).
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Koyré (1961) thinks that the “world of approximation” is that of the Aristotelian philosophy, but on a closer inspection, we find that this is not true. Galilean physics does not reject the “world of approximation”, but instead uses it, because it receives suggestions for a glimpse of the “world of precision”.
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Pisano (2013). See in particular the discussion on the peculiarity of physical mathematics with respect to mathematical physics.
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Answer to the question “What is the relationship between science and technology?”, retrieved online on April 2013 at the URL: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_relationship_between_science_and_technology.
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NRC (2012).
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NRC (2012).
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Bonanno, A., Camarca, M., Sapia, P. (2015). Science-Technology Cross-Hybridization and its Role in the Crisis of the Scientific Method: An Historical Perspective. In: Pisano, R. (eds) A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9645-3_2
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