[Divulgacao] [Ecientificos] The First International Conference on "Science Matters: A Unified Perspective"

[Gestor Informação]

Exmos.(as) Srs(as),
venho por este meio solicitar a divulgação da 
seguinte conferência apoiada pelo CES:
Com os melhores cumprimentos
Daniel Cardoso
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                  The First International Conference on


                                                     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 
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.

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)

Paulo Borges (Portugal, Meditation & Science of Mind)

Maria Burguete (Portugal, History & Philosophy of Contemporary
Chemistry)

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, Policy Fallacy: Stop Talking, Do It)

Bernardo Herold (Portugal, Science & 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)

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?)

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)



Cochairs: 
Contact:

Maria Burguete (Portugal)                                        Maria Burguete

Lui Lam 
(USA) 
Email: <mailto:mariaburguete at gmail.com>mariaburguete at gmail.com




Further Information: http://www.ces.uc.pt/science_matters_meeting/index.html


Sponsors:

Centro de Estudos Sociais
British Council
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Fundação Oriente
Fundação Luso-Americana
Barclays





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