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</font>Exmos.(as) Srs(as), <br>
venho por este meio solicitar a divulgação da seguinte conferência
apoiada pelo CES:<br>
Com os melhores cumprimentos<br>
Daniel Cardoso<font size=7> <br>
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The First International Conference on<br><br>
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<font size=6>SCIENCE MATTERS: A Unified Perspective<br><br>
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<font size=5>Ericeira, Portugal 28-30 May 2007<br><br>
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<br>
</font>Aims of Conference<br><br>
</b>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
perspectivethey 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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<b>Invited Speakers:<br><br>
</b>Leonor Béltran (Portugal, The Nature of Dance) <br><br>
Paulo Borges (Portugal, Meditation & Science of Mind) <br><br>
Maria Burguete (Portugal, History & Philosophy of Contemporary<br>
Chemistry)<br><br>
Paul Caro (France,Culture Through Science: A New World <br>
of Images and Stories) <br><br>
Clara Pinto Correia (Portugal, Biology: Manipulation of Scientific<br>
Information) <br><br>
Alfredo Dinis (Portugal, Have the neurosciences any
theological consequences?) <br><br>
Isabel Empis (Portugal, Psychology & Life Quality) <br><br>
Gilbert Fayl (Belgium, Policy Fallacy: Stop Talking, Do It)<br><br>
Bernardo Herold (Portugal, Science & society) <br><br>
Brigitte Hoppe (Germany, Judging by the appearance of the<br>
essential properties of natural body – the role of
physiognomy in science and art)<br><br>
Lui Lam (USA, Histophysics: Merging history with physics) <br><br>
Daguang Li (China, Science Communication in China) <br><br>
Bing Liu (China, Philosophy of Science and Chinese Sciences: The
Multicultural View of Science and Its Unified Ontological<br>
Model)<br><br>
Dun Liu (China, The History of Science in Globalizing Time)<br><br>
Edgar Morin (France, Did a scientific revolution begin?) <br><br>
João Arriscado Nunes (Portugal, Unified science or ecologies <br>
of practices?) <br><br>
Maurizio Salvi (Italy, Science & ethics) <br><br>
Nigel Sanitt (UK, The Tripod of Science: Communication, <br>
Philosophy and Education) <br><br>
Michael Shermer (USA, The Science of Good and Evil)<br><br>
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Cochairs:
Contact:<br><br>
</b>Maria Burguete
(Portugal)
Maria Burguete<br><br>
Lui Lam
(USA)
Email:
<a href="mailto:mariaburguete@gmail.com">mariaburguete@gmail.com</a><br>
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<font size=5>Further Information:
<a href="http://www.ces.uc.pt/science_matters_meeting/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ces.uc.pt/science_matters_meeting/index.html<br><br>
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</a>Sponsors: <br><br>
</font>Centro de Estudos Sociais<br>
British Council<br>
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian<br>
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia<br>
Fundação Oriente<br>
Fundação Luso-Americana<br>
Barclays<br><br>
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