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CADMUSNEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES

PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHTTHAT LEADS TO ACTION

Volume 3, Issue 2

May 2017

Published byTHE RISK INSTITUTE

GENEVA - PONDICHERRY - TRIESTE - ZAGREB

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED

PB 113

CADMUS, Volume 3, No.2, May 2017, 113-130

The Role of Scientists in a Human-centered SocietyJ. Martin Ramirez

Juan Cayón-Peña

AbstractScientists have an important role not only in avoiding inappropriate and dangerous decisions, but also advising policymakers and other stakeholders about the best and wiser moves to make towards a human-centered society, thereby fomenting scientific knowledge and enhancing cross-cultural connections and joint research. They should also not forget the objective limitations of Science, which is always incomplete. With this purpose, we stress the importance of transferring knowledge among all scientific disciplines, using a transdisciplinary cross-talks approach. A few examples of how this may be done are presented in the paper.

1. Introduction

“There are some objective limitations to Science itself. Science

is still faraway from its goal of knowing the truth, which it

al a s finds to e incomplete also science is not the onl a to search for Truth.”

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2. Conceptual GeneralitiesWhat do we understand from Science? scientia (scire

Wissenschaft = Naturwissenschaft Geisteswissenschaft

Weltanschauung

basic

applied

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soft sciences

Weltanschauung

3. Towards a Transdisciplinary Approach in the Natural & Social Sciences

“No single

discipline can capt re reality fully or

claim to have

the complete no ledge

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interdependent

An e

Wiener melange

The Strategy of Desire

“ ciences and h manities are act all not independent t interdependent a s o getting to no the orld

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4. Towards an Integrated and Comprehensive Technological Revolution

The 4th Industrial Revolution *

*

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“The desire to know the

unknown is

hat inspires h man ind s search for

no ledge

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5. Limits of Sciences

science has no borders

Science is not synonymous with truth

nature of Science is tentative and

“What is im

portant is not the objective

reality, but

s u b j e c t i v e

perception

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no scienti c o mas,

What is important is not the objective reality, but subjective perception nihil est in intellectu quod prius non fuerit in sensu,

E. coli

subject to error

optic papilla phi phenomenon

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cryptomnesia

fraud,

6. Reality goes beyond the Limits of Science

*

† raison d’être

vision of the human being

transcen s scienti c nowle e Ignoramus, Ignorabimus!

*

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everybody has faith

bridge between science and religion

credo quia absurdum.

7. How Scientists can help create a Human-centered Society

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cienti c coo eration in easin relations between o ernments

.

Improving the public’s understanding of socially relevant science

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(

a. Vaccination

*

*

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oncotherapy agarrándose a cualquier clavo ardiente,

*

* Mitos y pseudoterapias.

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,

orthorexia

ow can scientists influence what is bein resente in social platforms?

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8. Ethical Values of Science

in se

Anopheles

Anopheles,

scientists cannot neglect the ethical res onsibilit concernin their wor

“Scientists

cannot neglect

the ethical

re sponsi ilit concerning

their work.”

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9. Conclusion

Authors contact information:J. Martín Ramírez – Email: [email protected] Cayón-Peña – Email: [email protected]

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