Summary Of "Science & Development" By Mario Bunge: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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CHAPTER 2 BASIC SCIENCE, APPLIED AND TECHNICAL SCIENCE

It is necessary to distinguish scientific research from other activities related to it:

1. BASIC SCIENCE only aims to enrich human knowledge. Example: a physicist who studies the interactions between light and electrons.

2. APPLIED SCIENCE applies the knowledge obtained in basic research. Example: another physicist studying the photoelectric activity of certain sensitive substances

The basic researcher and the applied researcher use the same method, but while the basic researcher works on the problems that interest him, the applied researcher studies problems of possible social interest. Applied research can be planned in the long term, while basic research cannot, because the researcher can change his plans when he deems it necessary.

3. TECHNOLOGY uses science as a means to produce useful artifacts. Its purpose is to make a profit. Example: the engineer studying photoelectric cells to design a battery to keep a city illuminated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Dec 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201307073

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of Science & Development By Mario Bunge

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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SUMMARY OF SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT BY MARIO BUNGE

First edition. December 20, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201307073

Written by MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Bunge, Mario | SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT

BUNGE: THREE CULTURAL POLICIES

BUNGE'S CRITICS OF CULTURAL NATIONALISM

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SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 2 BASIC SCIENCE , APPLIED AND TECHNICAL SCIENCE

It is necessary to distinguish scientific research from other activities related to it:

1. BASIC SCIENCE only aims to enrich human knowledge. Example: a physicist who studies the interactions between light and electrons.

2. APPLIED SCIENCE applies the knowledge obtained in basic research. Example: another physicist studying the photoelectric activity of certain sensitive substances

The basic researcher and the applied researcher use the same method, but while the basic researcher works on the problems that interest him, the applied researcher studies problems of possible social interest. Applied research can be planned in the long term, while basic research cannot, because the researcher can change his plans when he deems it necessary.

3. TECHNOLOGY uses science as a means to produce useful artifacts. Its purpose is to make a profit. Example: the engineer studying photoelectric cells to design a battery to keep a city illuminated.

SCIENCE (BASIC OR APPLIED) SETS TO DISCOVER LAWS TO UNDERSTAND REALITY. TECHNOLOGY IS INTENDED TO CONTROL REALITY THROUGH SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. You are interested in reality as a natural resource or as an artifact. His problems are practical, not cognitive.

A body of knowledge is a technology if and only if:

a) It is compatible with contemporary science and controllable by the scientific method

b) It is used to control, transform or create things or processes, natural or

social

Distinguishing these activities does not mean separating them. Today there is an incessant flow between basic science, applied science, and technology, and from technology to industry. Industry also provides technology and science with indispensable means (apparatus, measuring instruments, etc.).

These three sectors are also related to PHILOSOPHY and IDEOLOGY:

• With philosophy, because scientific research is based on certain philosophical assumptions about nature and society.

• With ideology, because technology sets values ​​and ends.

TECHNOLOGY IS THE YOUNGEST OF THE AREAS OF MODERN CULTURE; perhaps for this reason it is not always seen that it is as essential as the others. So important is technology that it interacts with all other branches of culture (art, ideology, science, mathematics, etc.) We cannot, therefore, belittle technology if we wish to control it to prevent it from serving evil ends.

CHAPTER 6 SCIENCE AND NATIONAL PROBLEMS

Bunge opposes the idea