Abstract

LOPEZ CEREZO, José Antonio. Epistemología popular: condicionantes subjetivos de la credibilidad. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2008, vol.4, n.10, pp.159-170. ISSN 1850-0013.

This work addresses the subjective conditions for credibility and the attribution of trust in social communication of science and, in general, the processes of knowledge transfer. It is an incipient research line that can offer some interesting results. Adapting the previous notion of civic epistemology, I will argue that the users of knowledge are attitudinally active agents in the appropriation of knowledge, and their attitudes have an origin a limited repertory of epistemic styles. Thus, the development of popular epistemology may be useful for a better understanding of the conditions of scientific culture, and, in general, for the policies of knowledge promotion and management and governance of science.

Keywords : Popular epistemology; Social communication of science; Scientific culture; Knowledge transference and exchange.

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