With the aim of disseminating scientific thinking in the province, the University La Punta (ULP) is organizing an international seminar on "Science vs. Pseudoscience ', to be held on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 November, in Terrazas del Portezuelo.
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International Seminar on Science vs. Pseudoscience
With the aim of disseminating scientific thinking in the province, the University La Punta (ULP) is organizing an international seminar on "Science vs. Pseudoscience ', to be held on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 November, in Terrazas del Portezuelo.
The scientific meeting was part of a series of conferences of the Bicentennial of ULP, and under the auspices of the Scientific Society of Argentina. Among the exhibitors will be the renowned epistemologist Mario Bunge, a physicist and philosopher of science, along with other notables of the scientific world. With the aim of disseminating scientific thinking in the province, the University La Punta (ULP) is organizing an international seminar on "Science vs. Pseudoscience ', to be held on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 November, in Terrazas del Portezuelo.
From the University explained that the idea is to promote a deeper debate, which facilitates the establishment of conditions for "learning to think scientifically," the education system. "The theme of the seminar will focus therefore separate what is meant by pure science, the pseudoscience, non-systematic disciplines, that does not work on a consistent demonstration of his notions, but that issue without empirical support or academic. There pseudoscience both the humanities and in the exact, "said Hernan Tuesday, head of the ULP technological link.
Considering that science is one of the great works of mankind and that the characteristics of scientific thinking are absent from general reasoning, the workshop will have several panels which will be discussed for example, "Science and pseudoscience in the media "," Social Pseudoscience "and" philosophical background of science and pseudoscience, "among other topics.
" The forms of scientific thinking have to be taught, establishing a methodology based on experiments and observation, hypothesis formulation and choice of logical thought or one that lacks evidence ", said since the ULP.
During the event, there were panel discussions with invited experts to discuss and reflect on the central theme. Mario Bunge, who will have an important role in the seminar, is known for controversy, placing in the category of pseudo-psychoanalysis, homeopathy, neoclassical microeconomics, and for his criticism of philosophical as existentialism, phenomenology, postmodernism, hermeneutics and philosophical feminism. "They are like nightmares vanish when examined in the light of science," he says.
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