Dear All
Just a reminder that there will NOT be a presentation this Monday the 6th nor the 13th September in our HPS Research Series; our next talk will be held on the 20th September: David Gilad (University of Sydney) " Goethe's Delicate Empiricism" Husserl launched in his "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology" a strong criticism on the 'objectiveness' of the European positivist sciences that he claims are responsible for the crisis in the sciences in general, as well as in the European Society. Husserl stressed that the positivists ignore the subjective element of the Lebenswelt - the life - world. The Romantic mode of science, which in the German lands of Goethe's era, was perceived as a revolt against the objective, mechanical and reductionist natural philosophy of the Enlightenment, was seeking an alternative subjective and spiritual understanding of nature. Goethe, who did not consider himself as a Romantic scientist, advanced a science that attempted to overcome Husserl's criticism, as if he was trying to advance the cure to the illness. This science that he termed, "delicate empiricism", brought back the subject and his life into the realm of knowledge. He blurred the Cartesian distinction between the 'inner experience', which is the realm of the emotional and mental (the psyche), and the 'external experience', which is the realm of the objective things. The realm of the psyche can never be mathmatised and this is why a broader notion of science is required, one that will include the humanistic aspect of knowledge. To be held as usual: >From 6pm in Room 450 Carslaw Building University of Sydney Camperdown Campus All of course are very welcome. Debbie Castle | Administration Assistant Unit for History and Philosophy of Science Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm No. 441 Carslaw Building, F07 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 4226| F +61 2 9351 4846 | e [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | W http://sydney.edu.au/hps <http://sydney.edu.au/hps> Office Hours: 9am - 4.30pm: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this e-mail if necessary.
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