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| Title | Differences between ‘science’ and ‘scientific temper’? [Video] |
| Speaker |
Satyajit Rath,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Prof. Satyajit Rath was trained as a physician and a pathologist in Pune and Mumbai in the seventies and eighties, but since then has worked on mechanisms involved in the development and functioning of the immune system, initially in post-doctoral work in India and overseas, then as a faculty member at the National Institute of Immunology (NII) in New Delhi, and currently, since his retirement, in an honorary capacity first at the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) and now at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune. He also works off and on with governments on issues of science and society-related policy, and with civil society groups, especially those involved in science education and those working more broadly at the interface of science and society. |
| Date & Time | Saturday, 18 August 2018 | 10:00-11:30 |
| Venue | Kelkar Lab, CMS, SPPU | Limited seating (50) available on first-come-first-served basis |
| Abstract | Students of science learn about the methods of science and practice them. They function within the professional consensus that their careers depend on productive engagement with the idea of ‘science’. Yet, in the larger social communities that they come from, both they and their fellow-citizens live everyday lives that are frequently at odds with both the ideas and the methods of ‘science’. Perhaps as a result, the insistence of the constitution of India on the development of ‘scientific temper’ appears to be distinct from the professional concerns of scientists and academics. How do these two sets of ideas, one about the practice of ‘science’, and the other about the practice of a ’scientific temper’, intersect with each other? The talk will think aloud about these issues, and will try to make arguments about the basis of the convergence as well as about the factors that lead to apparent divergence between ‘science’ and ‘scientific temper’. |
| Organizer/Host | Centre for Modeling and Simulation, SPPU (office@cms.unipune.ac.in) |
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