NYC Skeptics Public Lecture Series presents:
Massimo Pigliucci
“Of Paradigm Shifts and the Objectivity of Science”
When: Saturday April 5 @ 1:00 PM
Where: University Settlement
184 Eldridge St. (at Rivington St., two blocks south of Houston)
Click here for map.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The so-called “science wars” between defenders of science and its critics have seen much nonsense said and written about how science works. Even the mainstream media talk about “paradigm shifts,” often without knowing what they are talking about. Plenty of people seamlessly (though irrationally) go from the fact that science has limits to discarding it as a source of knowledge altogether, from the undeniable fact that individual scientists are human beings to the unwarranted conclusion that science as a whole cannot be objective. This presentation will attempt to clear the conceptual mud of this debate, identify the nonsense regardless of who utters it, and in the process provide a realistic view of what science is and isn't.
Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York. He has been published in Skeptic magazine, Skeptical Inquirer, and has been elected as a Consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He also produces the “Rationally Speaking” blog and has authored the popular science book Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism and the Nature of Science.
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Massimo Pigliucci
“Of Paradigm Shifts and the Objectivity of Science”
When: Saturday April 5 @ 1:00 PM
Where: University Settlement
184 Eldridge St. (at Rivington St., two blocks south of Houston)
Click here for map.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The so-called “science wars” between defenders of science and its critics have seen much nonsense said and written about how science works. Even the mainstream media talk about “paradigm shifts,” often without knowing what they are talking about. Plenty of people seamlessly (though irrationally) go from the fact that science has limits to discarding it as a source of knowledge altogether, from the undeniable fact that individual scientists are human beings to the unwarranted conclusion that science as a whole cannot be objective. This presentation will attempt to clear the conceptual mud of this debate, identify the nonsense regardless of who utters it, and in the process provide a realistic view of what science is and isn't.
Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York. He has been published in Skeptic magazine, Skeptical Inquirer, and has been elected as a Consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He also produces the “Rationally Speaking” blog and has authored the popular science book Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism and the Nature of Science.
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Also: Don't forget -- Darwin '08 shirts are now available!
