What do we mean when we talk about science? Is it a way of approaching knowledge, a way of making questions to oneself or to obtain answers? What is the role of imagination, of science’s creativity? Is it about an unique or universal concept or does it vary according to time and context? These are some of the reflections of the last edition of the Mètode periodical publication, which goes around the question “What is science?”
In this edition, distinguished people from the field of physics, history and philosophy have participated. Therefore, the physician Jean Bricmont and the philosopher Elliott Sober go closer to the discussions that have accompanied the concept of the scientific method; Patricia Fara and Pedro Ruíz-Castell give a perspective of the history of science; Susanna Priest, Director of “Science Communication” has herself about the method of social sciences and for the difficulties of measuring the human behaviour; and finally, Jorge Wagensberg, who exposes his idea of the way of interdisciplinary methodknowledge.
Two interviews complete the monographic: one to the physician and philosopher Mario Bunge and another one to the anthropologist and evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar. The edition has been coordinated from the same magazine by Martí Domínguez, Director of Mètode and journalism professor of the Universitat de València, and by Lucía Sapiña, Mètode journalist.
The illustration of this edition have been done by the artist Nico Munuera (Lorca, 1974) and they evoke the artistic method, a process which -with a combination of technique and imagination- changes and idea into an artwork.
International Year of Light
Further than the monographic, the 84 edition also deals with the relations between the moral values and evolution through an article the researcher Paula Casal, who claims higher knowledge between the philosophy of distributive justice and evolutionary biology. An interview with the historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of “From animals into Gods”: A brief story of humanity allows to keep talking about science from the human science perspective.
The edition inaugurates 2015, International Year of Light, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the equations of James C. Maxwell and the electromagnetic synthesis with an edition of Full university professor of Physics of University of Alicante, Augusto Beléndez.
Fernando Ballesteros and Alberto Fernández Soto will also deal with the interesting world of astronomical photography. lastPablo Giménez, geography professor of the University of Alicante, will talk about the last wells of snow in the Sierra de Aitana and about its relationship with climate evolution.
Last update: 14 de february de 2015 07:00.
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