392172 | Braga | Winter 2022/23 | Monday 10-12 in U10-155 |
This time our Journal Club will in fact be a “Research café” with the title “(Computer) Science and society”.
This course will happen as a round table, always underlined by ethical discussions, and has a mixture of three main topics:
education
biology
technology
In biology, for example, we thought of starting by revisiting some elementary questions such as:
Is the organism a mechanism (machine)?
Is the organism controlled by its parts?
What is the whole of life in an organism?
Are thoughts a product of the brain?
And…
Are we allowed to ask ourselves and answer these questions?
In general we thought of having an open space, in which everyone will have a chance to express opinions and listen. The goal is more to enlarge our scientific views and critical senses, but we may also find new answers and pathways to follow.
Some literature (books) for inspiration:
The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021)
Against method (Paul Feyerabend, 1975)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962)
Ethics and the Limits of Technology (Ludwig Siep, 2022)
Date | Topic |
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10.10.2022 | Organization of the class |
17.10.2022 | More organization |
24.10.2022 | D. Noble: Evolution beyond neo-Darwinism: a new conceptual framework, J Exp Biol (2015) |
31.10.2022 | Introduction of “Ethics and the Limits of Technology” (see above) |
07.11.2022 | First chapter of “The Dawn of Everything” (see above) |
14.11.2022 | Noam Chomsky - How to stop the Doomsday Clock |
21.11.2022 | “The Open Society and its Enemies” by Popper |
28.11.2022 | Against method |
05.12.2022 | Against method |
12.12.2022 | Alternative views of biology |
19.12.2022 | Alternative views of biology |
Winter break | |
09.01.2023 | Artificial Intelligence: “Can inspiration be mechanized?” (Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1982) |
16.01.2023 | Sabine Hossenfelder: Superdeterminism - A Guide for the Perplexed (2020) |
23.01.2023 | Mechanism, organism |
30.01.2023 | Robert Rosen 1993: Critique of objectivity, determinism, reductionism, mechanistic view of an organism |