Science Matters

O CES anuncia a Conferência Internacional:

SCIENCE MATTERS: A Unified Perspective

Ericeira, Portugal 28-30 May 2007

Aims of Conference

All earnest and honest human quests for knowledge are efforts to understand nature, which includes all human and nonhuman systems, the objects of study in science. Thus, broadly speaking, these quests (as well as the systems being studied) are science matters. The methods and tools used may be different; for example, the literary people use mainly their bodily sensors and their brain as the information processor, while natural scientists may use, in addition, measuring instruments and computers. Yet, all these activities could be viewed in a unified perspective—they are scientific developments at varying stages of maturity and have a lot to learn from each other. In this conference, we invite experts from different disciplines worldwide to share their experience and outlooks, and hopefully plan the future together. Many of the topics included in this conference are under the name of science and culture, science and art, science and society, etc. We do not think these descriptions are useful. For example, by saying “science and culture,” it implies that science and culture are two different things, which could be opposing each other. Instead, we view them as different aspects of the same thing the effort to understand nature, and a new word “science matters” is called for.

Invited Speakers Leonor Béltran (Portugal, The Nature of Dance)
Maria Burguete (Portugal, Philosophy Of Computational
Chemistry: On The Way To An Interdisciplinary Epistemology?
Fernanda Nogueira Campos ((Brazil, Theatre of The Oppressed:
a tool to the science)
Paul Caro (France, Culture Through Science: A New World
of Images and Stories)
Clara Pinto Correia (Portugal, Biology: Manipulation of Scientific
Information)
Alfredo Dinis (Portugal, Have the neurosciences any theological consequences?)
Isabel Empis (Portugal, Psychology & Life Quality)
Gilbert Fayl (Belgium, Understanding EU R&D Policy)
Bernardo Herold (Portugal, Chemical Synthesis and Society)
Brigitte Hoppe (Germany, Judging by the appearance of the essential properties of natural body – the role of physiognomy in science and art)
Lui Lam (USA, Histophysics: Merging history with physics)
Zainab Jezzini Lamas (Brazil, Organizational Learning in Complex Adaptive Systems: An Interpretative Schema)
Daguang Li (China, Science Communication in China)
Bing Liu (China, Philosophy of Science and Chinese Sciences: The Multicultural View of Science and Its Unified Ontological Model)
Dun Liu (China, The History of Science in Globalizing Time)
Edgar Morin (France, Did a scientific revolution begin?)
João Arriscado Nunes (Portugal, Unified science or ecologies of practices?)
Elisabete Oliveira (Portugal, Visual Aesthetic Education: A Referential Sciences of Education Embracement to Other Sciences/Culture, Philosophy and Technology)
Maurizio Salvi (Italy, Science & Ethics) Nigel Sanitt (UK, The Tripod of Science: Communication, Philosophy and Education)
Michael Shermer (USA, The Science of Good and Evil) Berta Teixeira (Portugal, «of arts» - porous constellations of a creative process)

Co-chairs: Maria Burguete mariaburguete@gmail.com Lui Lam - lui2002lam@yahoo.com

Further Information:
http://www.ces.uc.pt/science_matters_meeting/index.html
Maria Burguete: mariaburguete@gmail.com

Sponsors: Centro de Estudos Sociais
Bristish Council
Barclays
Fundação Luso-Americana
Fundação Gulbenkian
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Fundação Oriente



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