Pythagorean Disputations II, 27.04.2016
The Center for The Advanced Studies WUT invites for successive meeting in the series of Pythagorean Disputations, titled “Self-reliance in the world of science” on 27th of April 2016, 4.15 p.m., the Small Hall in WUT’s Main Building.
Disputations will be leading by Prof. Stanisław Janeczko, special guest - Prof. Jan Madey from the Institute of Informatics UW and Dr. Leszek Mellibruda (UW) as a moderator. The following issues will be discussed: What the self-reliance is?; How does it evince?; Scientific autonomy and self-reliance in real life; Courage and individualism in the science. This discussion is arranged as an interactive meeting with all participants.
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Pythagorean Disputations
The Pythagorean Disputations. These are the kind of conversations, interactions and meetings inspiring to perceive new, hidden and forgotten aspects of reality.
Any thinking performs in the forms imposed by the language. Our perception and understanding performs within the limits of understanding the world - interpreted and named. Speech is an instrument of cognition which retains this understanding for us. Subconsciously the speech often contains a particular interpretation of existence. The language of scientific theory becomes an organ by which we perceive the world veritably, "Only the theory determines what’s the object of the measurement" (Einstein). If the role of the language is understood in this way, then the role of the conversation appears essential on a way of attaining the truth. "Truth conceives between two" (Nietzsche). We want such talks, by which the truth happens. "Significant, existence related truth arises only in communication" (Jaspers). The truth is happening and is creating between conversing people. In the conversation, thought is not communicated as a finished creation. It is rather a leaven, the drive pulse stimulating the stream of thoughts, going beyond the words and thoughts of the first interlocutor, in a very creative way. We want these conversations. The Pythagorean Disputations are such conversations.