Conjuntos de creencias y coherentismo: posibles manipulaciones del conocimiento científico

Abstract

In a technological world where science prevails, it becomes necessary to conduct a critical analysis of it. With this premise, the writing we present today originates. Our goal is to seek mechanisms and frameworks that allow us to evaluate and understand how science operates, and above all, how decisions are made within it. Understanding how scientific knowledge is established and what justifies it is a central axis of this explanation. With this in mind, our intention is to propose a framework to assess and detect certain irregular situations within science, which go against the popularized view of it, and even the perspective the scientific community aims to project. Our mission today is to demystify science, expose its structure and development, with the intention of o↵ering a vision of scientific practice that is more accesible to anyone who seeks it. To equip ourselves with the aforementioned tool of analysis, we will begin with scientific knowledge and its justification, and then focus on a specific model: coherentism. From this, we will explore how certain decisions are made that stray from what we would consider “scientific.and lead to situations that appear anomalous within the discipline, and subsequently give rise to manipulations of knowledge.