scholarly journals Valor da ciência, defesa do conhecimento e Perspectival Realism: Entrevista com Michela Massimi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Massimi ◽  
Vinicius Carvallho Da Silva ◽  
Ivã Gurgel ◽  
Ronaldo Moraca
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
London School ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
University College London ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Perspectival Realism ◽  
Science Association

Michela Massimi é professora de Filosofia da Ciência no Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de Edimburgo, onde também é afiliada ao  Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. Membro de importantes sociedades filosóficas e científicas, como a Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Royal Astronomical Society, e a Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (membro correspondente) é presidente eleita da PSA, Philosophy of Science Association, para o biênio 2023-2024. Massimi, com dupla nacionalidade, italiana e britânica, estudou na Sapienza Università di Roma, na London School of Economics, e lecionou História e Filosofia da Ciência na University College London antes de mudar-se para Edimburgo. Massimi trabalha com Filosofia da Ciência em uma abordagem marcada pelo recurso à pesquisa histórica. Seus interesses amplos abarcam a Filosofia da Cosmologia, o realismo científico, os estudos de ciências, as relações entre ciência e sociedade, entre outros tópicos. Tem se destacado por defender o que chama de Perspectival Realism, se afastando tanto do realismo tradicional, quanto do pragmatismo e do relativismo. Nessa entrevista dialogamos com Massimi sobre temas como o valor da ciência, a defesa da ciência em épocas de negacionismo e obscurantismo e as características de sua posição filosófica. 

scholarly journals Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900. Preliminary report of the expedition to the south limit of totality to obtain photographs of the flash spectrum in high solar latitudes

1901 ◽  
Vol 67 (435-441) ◽  
pp. 370-385 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The South ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Flash Spectrum ◽  
Government Grant

This expedition was one of those organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, funds being provided from a grant made by the Government Grant Committee. The following were the principal objects which I had in view in arranging the expedition:— To obtain a long series of photographs of the chromosphere and flash spectrum, including regions of the sun’s surface in mid-latitudes, and near one of the poles.

scholarly journals Address BY Dr. J. H. Jeans, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Secretary of the Royal Society.

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 151-152
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Lord Chancellor

My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Campbell, Ladies and Gentlemen: It would be an impertinence on my part to try to add anything to the Cambridge welcome which the Chancellor has offered you, but it is my privilege to be allowed to offer you a few words of welcome from a somewhat different angle. As the Chancellor has said, it is my good fortune to be officially connected with the two learned societies to whom, I suppose, your visit to this country means most: the Royal Society, which takes all natural knowledge for its province, and which is especially interested in international co-operation in the pursuit of such knowledge, and the Royal Astronomical Society, which takes astronomical knowledge for its special care. I am sure that both these bodies would wish that I should seize this opportunity to offer a most cordial welcome to our astronomical visitors from other countries; a welcome not only to Cambridge, but to this country in general. We feel it right that your visit should begin at Cambridge, but we are sure it is not right that it should end there; we hope you will remember that, after Cambridge, London also exists.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 126 (803) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society

Dr. Glaisher died on December 7, 1928, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he was the senior of the actual Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, was the senior member of the London Mathematical Society, and was almost the senior in standing among the Fellows of the Royal Society and among the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Throughout all his years he was devoted to astronomy, chiefly in its mathematical developments. In his prime he ranked as one of the recognised English pure mathematicians of his generation, pursuing mainly well-established subjects by methods that were uninfluenced by the current developments of analysis then effected in France and in Germany. Towards the end of his life he had attained high station as an authority on pottery, of which he had diligently amassed a famous collection. Glaisher was the elder son of James Glaisher, F. R. S., himself an astronomer, a mathematician specially occupied with the calculation of numerical tables, and a pioneer in meteorology, not without risk to his life. For the father, one of the founders of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, was an aeronaut of note; with Coxwell, in 1862, he made the famous balloon ascent which reached the greatest height (about seven miles) ever recorded by survivors.

Imre Lakatos

Philosophy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Larvor ◽  
Colin Jakob Rittberg
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
London School ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Imre Lakatos ◽  
Gregory Currie ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Modern Mathematics ◽  
Mathematics And Science

Imre Lakatos (b. 1922–d. 1974) was a philosopher of mathematics and science. Having left Hungary in 1956, he made his first appearance on the international stage with a series of four papers during 1963 and 1964 in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, later published together posthumously in Proofs and Refutations (1976), in which he discusses the formation of mathematical concepts by proof-analysis. This radical break with classical approaches to the philosophy of mathematics attracted sufficient interest that Kitcher and Aspray deem Lakatos to have started a new and “maverick” tradition in the field (“An Opinionated Introduction,” in History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, 1988). By 1959, Lakatos had become an assistant lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This department was still under the direction of its founder, Karl Popper, and Lakatos’s evolving and ultimately antagonistic relations with Popper and the Popperians conditioned much of his work. The chief part of this work was a series of influential papers on the philosophy of science. These are included in the two books of his work that two of his former students, John Worrall and Gregory Currie, published after his death (Lakatos 1978a and Lakatos 1978b, cited under Posthumously Published). In 1974, Lakatos died of a heart attack, leaving his projects in philosophy of science and mathematics incomplete.

Napier Tercentenary Celebration, July 1914

1914 ◽  
Vol 7 (110) ◽  
pp. 299-300
Author(s):  
C.G. Knott
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Town Council ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Educational Importance

John Napier's Logarithmorum Canonis Mirifici Descriptio was published in 1614 ; and it is proposed to celebrate the tercentenary of this great event in the history of mathematics by a Congress, to be held in Edinburgh on Friday, 24th July, 1914, and following days.The Celebration is being held under the auspices of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on whose invitation a General Committee has been formed, representing the Royal Society of London, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Town Council of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Actuaries, the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, the University College of Dundee, and many other bodies and institutions of educational importance.The President and Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh have now the honour of giving a general invitation to mathematicians and others interested in this coming Celebration.

scholarly journals Charles Babbage and the Ophthalmoscope

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-148 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Great Utility ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design And Construction

In the early part of 1940, at one of the dinners of the Royal Society A Dining Club, Sir John Parsons drew the attention of those present to a fact of some interest in the history of the Society, namely, that the Ophthalmoscope had been invented by Charles Babbage, F.R.S., in 1847, four years before H. von Helmholtz published his Eines Augen-Spiegels in 1851. Von Helmholtz however foresaw the great utility of his invention and devised a much more efficient instrument without knowing what Babbage had done and it is to him therefore that the credit belongs. Babbage is well known as a mathematician who interested himself in the design and construction of scientific instruments. He was at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1816. From 1828 to 1839 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, but is said to have delivered no lectures during his tenure of it. He took an active part in the foundation of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820, and was secretary of it until 1824.

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