Sumários

Science, Gender and Difference

2 novembro 2026, 16:00 • Tiago José Ferreira Lapa da Silva

Analysis of the sociocultural conditioning of scientific knowledge production. The Matthew and Matilda Effects and inequalities in scientific recognition. Relationships between science, politics, and power: the Lysenko affair. Feminist epistemology, epistemic injustice, and the naturalisation of gender differences. Contributions of Londa Schiebinger, Cordelia Fine, and Helen Longino. Critiques of biological essentialism, androcentrism, and gender bias in scientific research.

The scientific revolution, trust and values within science.

26 outubro 2026, 16:00 • Tiago José Ferreira Lapa da Silva

How scientific knowledge depends fundamentally on practices of trust, witnessing, and quality assurance.
Observation is never self-evident and credibility is historically relied on “virtual witnessing,” replication, and the socio-cultural settings of experimentation, from the gentlemanly conventions of the Royal Society to the place-cultures of modern labs such as SLAC, where trust is built through shared norms, spaces and hierarchies. 


What Makes Science Scientific? From Scientific Reasoning to Boundary-Work

19 outubro 2026, 16:00 • Tiago José Ferreira Lapa da Silva

Scientific reasoning and methodological diversity.
The demarcation problem.
Science, law, and institutional authority.
Science as a historical and social practice.

Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, and the Standing of the Social Sciences

12 outubro 2026, 16:00 • Tiago José Ferreira Lapa da Silva

- The social foundations of knowledge.
- Social construction and scientific reflexivity.
- The problem of induction and Popper's falsificationism
- The limits of falsification and beyond Popper.
- The central challenge for sociology.

Sociology and Epistemology

21 setembro 2026, 16:00 • Tiago José Ferreira Lapa da Silva

Course Overview

Introduction to Ontology & Epistemology
Sociology of Knowledge
Theoretical Roots of the Sociology of Knowledge
Contemporary Perspectives
Reflection questions connecting ontology, epistemology, and sociology of knowledge.