Philosophy of the sciences and the techniques

This course aims to clarify the nature of scientific and technological activities, that is to say, the standards that govern them as well as the tensions that drive them, to better understand their impacts on societies and different environments. The sessions will deal with fundamental questions in the philosophy of science (e.g. change in science; trust; the collective dimension of science; the role of values ​​in science), in order to better study general issues in the technical and technological world (e.g. technoscience, technological evolution) as well as specific problematic objects (e.g. Big Data; Nano-technologies; etc.).

• Science and technology?
• What is knowledge? The change in knowledge.
• General problems in philosophy of science
• The collective dimension of science
• Science in action
• Anthropology of techniques
• Technical evolution: technique and living things
• AI / War and technology.