Olá, Marcelo: > Não sei se vocês sabem, mas esta Templeton Foudation tem objetivos > religiosos, mais especificamente de tentar harmonizar ciência e cristianismo. > > Não acho que eles estejam financiando nenhum projeto na área de > biologia evolutiva, a não ser que seja para desprovar a teoria da evolução.
Confesso que há alguns anos eu também me preocupei com o status desta instituição. É bastante provável que eles de fato evitem financiar projetos que na opinião deles não representem de forma alguma "Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities", qualquer que seja o significado disto. Mas o fato é que eles têm consistentemente financiado, por exemplo, bolsas de pesquisa em Matemática Reversa e Análise Não-Standard (cite-se Harvey Friedman, ou o recém mencionado "Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness", de Harvard), e talvez por isso mesmo eles participem também do financiamento (e mesmo do Advisory Board) do Kurt Gödel Research Prize, oferecido anualmente pela Sociedade Kurt Gödel, com sede em Viena, e de eventos relacionados, como o recente "New Trends in Logic" (http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/6972/). A área de Lógica, assim, certamente não pode reclamar da generosidade da Templeton. A propósito, eis o que a própria fundação tem a dizer sobre o projeto "Pushing the Boundaries of Mathematics": http://www.templeton.org/templeton_report/20080625/ Não consigo ver as manobras acima como óbvias tentativas de "harmonizar ciência e cristianismo" (certamente não é esta a "missão" de Harvey Friedman!), e por isso tenho dúvidas de que sua pronta reação crítica neste ponto, Marcelo, seria inteiramente bem fundamentada. Aqui se pode ler um artigo interessante a respeito deste assunto: How bad is the Templeton Foundation? http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2011/03/how_bad_is_the_templeton_found.php Continuemos atentos, Joao Marcos PS: Sobre a posição da Fundação Templeton acerca da biologia evolutiva, vale notar que eles concederam uma bolsa a David Sloan Wilson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sloan_Wilson). >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Peter Koellner <[email protected]> >> >> Dear All, >> >> I would like to inform you of a new exiting project that it >> taking place at Harvard this academic year -- the "Exploring the >> Frontiers of Incompleteness" project, made possible by the >> generous support of the John Templeton Foundation. The aim is to >> bring together some of the most prominent thinkers who have >> struggled with the following questions: >> >> 1. Do the questions that are independent of the standard >> axioms admit of determinate answers? >> >> 2. If so then what are those answers and how might we go >> about determining them? >> >> These are very difficult questions and there are many prominent >> philosophers and mathematicians who have given them a great deal >> of thought. There is a broad spectrum of views. For example, at >> one end there are people like Solomon Feferman who think that >> there are "objective facts of the matter" about questions >> pertaining to the natural numbers but think that most of the >> questions of set theory (most notably, the Continuum >> Hypothesis (CH)) are "indeterminate" since the underlying notions >> of set theory are "inherently vague". At the other end of the >> spectrum there are people like Hugh Woodin who have provided >> serious arguments (based on a wealth of mathematical results) for >> thinking that questions like CH are determinate and who have >> advanced major programs (again based on a wealth of mathematical >> results) for determining those answers. There are many views in >> between and there are views which are entirely orthogonal to this >> ordering. The main purpose of the two-part series is to >> investigate these various positions, compare their strengths and >> weaknesses, and make steps forward in determining the answers to >> the two guiding questions. We shall do this by actually engaging >> with the major figures in this foundational debate. Through >> generous external support we have managed to secure the funding >> necessary to make this possible. Over the next two semesters >> there will be 12 workshops. Each workshop will involve a >> presentation by one of the major figures in the debate. The >> speakers are: >> >> Fall Semester >> >> * Solomon Feferman >> * Matt Foreman >> * Penelope Maddy >> * Charles Parsons >> * William Tait >> * Hugh Woodin >> >> Spring Semester >> >> * James Cummings >> * Tony Martin >> * Menachem Magidor >> * John Steel >> * Stevo Todorcevic >> * Philip Welch >> >> The speaker presentations will occur (roughly) every two weeks >> and during the intervening weeks there will be lectures by Peter >> Koellner on the background material required for the upcoming >> talk. In addition, the paper of the presentation will be made >> available in advance. Moreover, all 12 speakers will be involved >> throughout the process ?- they too will receive the papers in >> advance and will be given an opportunity to comment on it. At >> the end of the workshop series there will be a >> master-workshop (something like a conference but more >> interactive) involving all workshop-speakers and all >> participants. Finally, along the way there will be opportunity >> for world-wide discussion on an Internet portal. >> >> For further details are available here: Go to >> >> http://logic.harvard.edu/# >> >> and then click on ``EFI Project'' to navigate through the >> Overview, Schedule, and Materials and Discussion section. >> >> We hope that you can all participate. >> >> Best, >> Peter Koellner >> _______________________________________________ >> Logica-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l >> > > > > -- > Marcelo Finger > Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao > Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica > Universidade de Sao Paulo > Rua do Matao, 1010 > 05508-090 Sao Paulo, SP Brazil > Tel: +55 11 3091-9688, 3091-6135, 3091-6134 (fax) > http://www.ime.usp.br/~mfinger > _______________________________________________ > Logica-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l > -- http://sequiturquodlibet.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
