STS Readings of science and modernity

Abstract

The current global climate crisis highlights the limits and mistakes of modern Western thinking, inviting to a critical reflection on its development, which demonstrates the correlations that it maintains with the current state of things. Under the focus of Science Studies, Technology and Society (STS), we retrace, in a renewed socio-historical understanding, the development of modern European science and of the paradigm of modernity, using the contributions of philosophy, sociology and history of science to denaturalize its supposed epistemic superiority and question its foundations and hegemony. The text also dialogues with post-colonial studies, with thinkers the Brazilian culture and authors indigenous the Brazil, emphasizing the need for epistemic emancipation and the decolonization of thought, in the sense of a non-hierarchical dialogue with the knowledges of tradition.