Science From Medieval Time to Modern Era-Summary of Prof. Jamal Mimouni’s Presentation
Outline
1.The scholastic Age
• The scholastic discourse
• The great chain of beings
2. The Scientific Revolution
• The new mathematical legacy
• Firing up the technological revolution
• Ambiguities in the scientific endeavor
• Various versions of the History of Science
3. Physics: the Paradigmatic Science
• The new magicians
• Various schemes
4. The Limits of Science
• Science & Non Science
• New Epistemological stances
• The modesty of science…
Science Coming out
I. The Scholastic Age
• The scholastic discourse
• Method of critical thought and learning:
- Extend knowledge by inference from the previous scholars
- Harmonizing knowledge and avoid any conflict wit doma
• The great chain of beings
- Religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life
II. The Scientific Revolution
• Galileo’s tribulation
• The new mathematical legacy
• Firing up the technological revolution
III.Societal Debates
• Western Science
• The Great Chain of Beings
• Scala naturae
• Principle of plenitude: “From the anthropocentric principle that theUniverse is made uniquely for Mankind.”
Modern Science-Its Philosophie, its Epistemology 1
What is Science?
• Ambiguities in the scientific endeavor
• Various versions of the History of Science
• Ordered ensemble of knowledge concerning the physical
• Method allowing to establish /validate knowledge
• …il contains also a certain vision of the World
• « La science c’est ce que les scientifiques font! »
