Abstract

My aim in this paper is to examine the importance of the epistemic judgements of value in the processes of construction of the technological rules from scientific laws. In particular I defend the theses that the criteria of value that rules the election of scientific theories in the technological realm are not identical to the ones on which theories in pure science are chosen. In this sense, for the sake of its technological usage the least empirical support of a theory as regards another can be equilibrated by a major simplicity. Apart from this I examine certain implications of the model of construction of rules for the conception of the technological rationality, and some critics to the applied science-technology identification