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Is Science Nearing its Limits?George Steiner and Emilio Rui Vilar![]()
Series: Gulbenkian Foundation Publications
Categories: 21st Century, Portuguese Imprint: Lives and Letters Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as:
Contributors:
Emílio Rui Vilar, President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation George Steiner, University of Cambridge Dieter Lüst, Ludwig Maximilians University Peter Woit, Columbia University Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, CERN Lewis Wolpert, University College London Helga Nowotny, European Research College Eörs Szathmáry, Collegium Budapest John Horgan, Stevens Institute of Technology João Caraça, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Laura Bossi, Foundation for Biological Psychiatry Pierre Deniker Jean-Pierre Luminet, Paris-Meudon Observatory, CNRS
In October 2007 the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation invited fourteen of the world’s most innovative thinkers to debate the future of science and scientific practice in an international conference in Lisbon. The challenging papers published here are the result of their engagement with the ethics, potential and limitations of science. Their authors’ areas of expertise encompass life sciences and mathematics, particle physics and law, but all work at the cutting edge of their specialisms, and all share a concern to share scientific knowledge and explore the consequences of scientific development in their practical and moral dimensions.
Four central themes emerge: the extraordinary paradoxes of string theory, the potential for progress within the life sciences, incompleteness and inconsistency in scientific thinking, and how science changes human understanding of our place in the universe. Twenty-first-century science involves disturbing issues of choice and responsibility, as well as inspiring opportunities. Is Science Nearing its Limits? raises questions that concern us all. As Emílio Rui Vilar writes in his Foreword, ‘what prevails is the impulse that is inherent in the human condition, to know more and to want to understand things better’.
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