Contextualizing the contexts of discovery and justification
how to do science studies in Brazil
pp. 233-243
in: Décio Krause, Antonio A. Passos Videira (eds), Brazilian studies in philosophy and history of science, Berlin, Springer, 2011Abstract
The main goal of our article is to discuss briefly the possibility to apply the theoretical tools of the so-called Science Studies to peripherical countries like Brazil. We do this with and against the Science Studies, looking for less conservative goals on the evaluation of scientific levels accomplished by countries considered as being underdeveloped