“Towards the Limits of the Possible: The Philosophic Ambition of a Technological Science” featuring JMC Professor Tobin Craig
Fri, November 5, 2021 1:00 PM at
JMC Professor Tobin Craig will be the featured speaker at University of Colorado Boulder's Engineering Leadership Program. This lecture series examines how America’s zealous promotion of science, technology, and scientific education affects American democracy.
Lecture Description:
Today science is publicly defended and justified on the promise that it will yield useful knowledge and beneficial technologies. And yet, at the same time, individual practicing scientists often conceive of and describe their activity as primarily and even ultimately oriented towards the discovery of the truth about nature. This duality in the way science is conceived of and justified is part of the legacy of Francis Bacon’s great effort to refound and reform science. In this lecture, Professor Craig will reconsider Bacon's original argument for a technological science, focusing on the question of which of these two aims or goals is primary for Bacon, and how Bacon conceived of their relationship.