Integrity

Science is an account of things we can’t see in terms of things we can. Latour and Kosso tell a tale in which different people with different beliefs about the world will see different theories as having internal virtues. Science and technology have shaped the world we know and every story we have ever been told is to separate facts and values, science and nature, but that is not the way to go. Take an alternative look, says Latour. Civic engagement would encourage a look at the alternatives and rather than muck around we can try and solidify our claim by being objective and well-connected to the debate over global warming. Debates don’t come to a principled end but rather they come to practical ends. Drawing boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate claims of whether something is solid or not are the multiplicities of the outcome and further outcomes. In the undoing of science an of the facts which speak to us over climate change, we have been undoing the evidence, going upstream, and offering alternatives to meet practical ends.

Latour provides us the opportunity to move ahead and take matters into our own hands and come out of the cave so that we can think better than we did before about issues such as these. Science is an account of things we can’t see in terms of things we can. These different propositions will bring about integrity and is a dynamic worth exploring.