Inginerii sociale graduale, constructivism social şi filosofia matematicii
Gradual social engineers, social constructivism and the philosophy of mathematics

Summary/Abstract: Mathematics is seen as a type of intellectual discourse, with practical implications that govern all knowledge that is meant to be scientific and experimental. The debate on mathematics is extrapolated to the level of society: society is a type of real entity, an organism with specific modes and legacies. On this point, we try to see how the "gradual social engineering" proposed by Popper, becomes practicable.There is no such thing as an ideal of mathematics or of society; neither in mathematics nor in society do we operate with an absolute that is going to be implanted; gradual social engineering does not claim to have a large impact on society, it is always experimenting; at the same time, constructivism and gradual engineering oppose irrationalism, radicalism and relativism; mathematical language, like that of social norms, consists of language games that arise from deeply rooted norms and particularly enduring and stable models, but which always remain open to the possibility of long-term change.

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