Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other disciplines. The aim of Culture, Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery is to try to shine a light through the mist of scientific research by way of examples taken from the sciences, social sciences and the humanities.The book maintains that the foundations of science are built on sand because theories come and go and...

First published in 1996, Science as a Questioning Process evaluates scientific theories through from Darwinian evolution to relativity, and from quantum theory to cosmology. It offers an examination of these theories, in terms of a compromise between resolvable empirical questions, and theoretical questions left unresolved. The book asks questions that deal with both intellectual and public concern about what science tells us, and how reliable it is. Through this novel perspective...

Scimat (Science Matters) is the new multidiscipline that deals with the science of humans. It aims to raise the scientific level of the humanities by encouraging interaction between humanists and natural scientists. This book arises from a very special conjunction between several different scientists meeting together for the tenth anniversary of the Science Matters Conferences at Cascais Cultural Center in October 2017. This volume which contains 8 chapters written by 9 expert humanists an...

Scimat (Science Matters) is the new multidiscipline that deals with the science of humans. It aims to raise the scientific level of the humanities by encouraging interaction between humanists and natural scientists. This book Interdisciplinarity and General Education in the 21st Century derives from the fifth international scimat conference of the same title, held in Cascais, Portugal, in October 2015, at Muchaxo Hotel, one of the most ancient icons of the charming Atlantic Coast. A great ...

Scimat (Science Matters) is the new multidiscipline that deals with the science of humans. It aims to raise the scientific level of the humanities by encouraging interaction between humanists and natural scientists. This book arises from a very special conjunction between different scientists meeting together for the VII International Conference on Science Matters at - NOVA School of Business and Economics - in Carcavelos, Portugal, in October 2019. This book has been organized in three pa...

Todas as questões humanas do conhecimento colocadas de forma honesta e sincera, constituem esforços para compreender a Natureza, nela se incluindo todos os seus objectos de estudo formados por sistemas humanos e sistemas não humanos. Assim, de um modo geral, todas estas questões pertencem ao domínio da ciência. Os métodos e as ferramentas utilizadas podem ser diferentes, consoante se trate de um especialista da área das ciências humanas e sociais ou um especialista da área das ciências nat...