THE OPEN AND FREE SOCIETY IN POPPER AND FEYERABEND AND THE PERCEPTION OF UNDERGRADUATES ABOUT ITS ASPECTS

Abstract

When observing the development of science, authors such as Popper and Feyerabend discuss a series of elements that make society closed by directing, from political and economic elements, the knowledge that will be considered valid. In view of their questions, the present research sought to understand the perceptions that students of five undergraduate courses of a state university have about the issue. To achieve the objective, interviews were carried out, which were analyzed through a process of discursive textual analysis, which, in turn, indicated a series of agreements between Popper's and Feyerabend's explanations and the students' perceptions.