All Sciences Are Human and No Science Is Exact - Advances in Historical Studies

AHS > Vol.9 No.3, September 2020

All Sciences Are Human and No Science Is Exact ()

HTML XML

Download as PDF (Size: 231KB) PP. 113-122

DOI: 10.4236/ahs.2020.93010 784 Downloads 7,149 Views Citations

Author(s)

Agamenon R. E. Oliveira

Affiliation(s)

Department of Structures, Polytechnic School of UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

ABSTRACT

The vertiginous development of science in the last decade, in several different fields such as nanoscience, neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and the promise of the quantum computer in the near future, requires constant reflection from scientists, philosophers, and epistemologists about the profound implications of this in these different fields of knowledge and for society. This paper aims to raise some ideas that can help in this reflection and show that all scientific areas are interconnected, implying that the results obtained in the technological areas depend on other sciences and even on philosophy by the very nature of scientific knowledge. Furthermore, the established separation of disciplines, which is made by universities, placing human sciences on one side and exact sciences on the other, is questionable and insufficient to account for the complexity in the classification of sciences. It needs further epistemological deepening.

KEYWORDS

Epistemology and Philosophy, Classification of Sciences, History of Sciences

Share and Cite:

Oliveira, A. (2020) All Sciences Are Human and No Science Is Exact. Advances in Historical Studies, 9, 113-122. doi: 10.4236/ahs.2020.93010.

Journals Menu