From World3 to the social assessment of technology

remarks on science, technology, and society

José Sanmartín Esplugues

pp. 197-209

in: Carl Mitcham (ed), Philosophy of technology in Spanish speaking countries, Berlin, Springer, 1993

Abstract

From a well-known point of view, science is thought to constitute a world of objective entities (World3) different from the objective world of material things (World 1) and the subjective world of minds or mental states (World2). This is an old trichotomy, of which Popper is the leading contemporary proponent.

Cited authors

Popper Karl