Technicity vs Scientificity: Complementarities and Rivalries

The relationship between technicity and scientificity is often overlooked or avoided despite being a determining factor for establishing interdisciplinarity. By focusing on this relationship and highlighting a number of its ramifications, this book sheds light on the hidden or skewed stakes that condition a wide array of scientific projects. 

The authors present different approaches based on their own professional experience, focusing on the technique–science relationship in domains as diverse as brain mapping, the decipherment of Mycenaean writing and the design process. Each chapter presents varying and often opposing epistemological conclusions to provide the reader with a wide breadth of examples in different fields.

Although the scope of this book is far from exhaustive, it serves as a starting point for the necessary and long-overdue clarification of the relationship between these neighboring, yet disjointed, sectors.

Giulia Anichini is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) in Montreal, Canada.

Flavia Carraro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany.

Philippe Geslin is Professor at the Neuchâtel University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.

Georges Guille-Escuret is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).