Repenser l’opinion en science : pour une critique de l’opinion de Platon et de Bachelard

Abstract

This article proposes a thought on the links between opinion and science or more precisely social dynamics and scientific productions. So to get there, it seemed very important to us to revisit the ancient conceptions of opinion in the face of science, more precisely the conception of Plato and those modern with Auguste Comte and Gaston Bachelard. It is a question of responding to this contemporary concern, that of knowing what status opinion has in this trajectory of progress in science and technology? does society not contribute significantly to the evaluation and reorientation of scientific projects? In response to this concern, our ambition is to try to understand how technological power and special interests exacerbate regulations of the technoscientific project in the contemporary world and in what way a rational treatment can be operated. Through this contribution, it is a question of starting from a recurrent notion in order to operate a new conceptualization capable of accounting for a given reality. The hypothesis which has structured our research is that the new forms of scientific progress reveal that opinion can no longer be considered as an obstacle to scientific progress. Thus in its new forms, unlike Platon, Auguste Comte Ahamadou Hamage Issa 354 and Bachelard, scientific progress grants opinion the status of evaluation and reorientation of scientific activity.