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Beyond Objects: the Future of Science| old_uid | 3217 |
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| title | Beyond Objects: the Future of Science |
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| start_date | 2007/10/04 |
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| schedule | 11h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Science is an empirical study of nature. Conclusions are tested by experiments, which are interpreted through the experience of the researchers performing the experiments, but in a very specific way.
Although experience typically has a subject-interaction-object structure, in science the subject and interaction part is left out from consideration. When different researchers compare experiences, and can find agreement in their ways of describing the structure and behavior of objects, those properties of objects are considered to be part of the domain of science. When subjects and interactions such as perception are being studied, they are immediately approached in turn as objects of other investigations, by others scientists whose subjects and interactions are again hidden from view. Would it be possible to enlarge the scientific method, by lifting the narrow restrictions on the empirical method that have been in vogue for the last few hundred years? And would there be any limits to the way in which such an enlarged science could grow further? |
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| responsibles | Barberousse, Tessier Cardon |
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