18 December 2023

PhiloMadrid Season Greetings! + News

PhiloMadrid Season Greetings! + News

Dear Friends,


Wising you Happy Season Greetings and a Prosperous New Year…!


Hopefully, next year we'll be able to return to our meetings in person.
I am grateful for everyone who tried their best to find us a place to meet.


In the meantime, we can return to our Skype meetings on the 10th January
2024 to discuss:


Science and Technology
https://www.philomadrid.com/2023/12/science-and-technology.html


NEWS:

Milton has asked me to share this message with you:
Hi Lawrence, as you know many people I thought to let you know that I am
looking for people to share an apartment. If you know someone, please
let me know…
My phone/Whatsapp is 640 548 064 and e-mail miltonriveramanga@gmail.com

Past News:

--Diego: Manifesto: The Beehive Complex: Dare to Dance in the Dark and
Rejoice in the Most Astonishing of Illusions.
The Beehive Complex is available here: https://amzn.eu/d/9U4AwmH
It's a short book and to the point!


--Un giro en el aire
Lucinda Maxwell (Teresa)
https://libros.cc/Un-giro-en-el-aire.htm?isbn=9788411753296
Also from Amazon.es ( https://amzn.eu/d/a6RY3AP )


--Oscar's book is now available from Oscar himself:
"Toranzo, 88 ilustraciones y coplillas" by Oscar at €35
https://www.philomadrid.com/2022/09/toranzo-88-ilustraciones-y-coplillas-by.html


--It is with great sadness that I have learnt Julian Martelli passed
away early in October this year, 2022. Julian was very active during our
meetings in Molly Malone and participation was always respected by all.
Christine kindly wants to share with us a photo of Julian with her and
friends. You can find the FaceBook link below.

I also include a link for our visit to Toledo in 2008 when Julian came
with us on the day trip.

Julian
https://www.philomadrid.com/2022/11/julian.html


--Jorge has kindly sent us the link to his book which is available for
Free Distribution at:
Evolution of Thought and its Influence on Society and Technology
https://www.adneli.com/store


Please let me know if you need the Skype link: preferably by WhatsApp.


Best and take care
Lawrence


telephone/WhatsApp: 606081813
Email: philomadrid@gmail.com
http://www.philomadrid.com


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10 December 2023

PhiloMadrid Skype meeting: Wed 13th December at 8:00pm: Science and Technology + NEWS

PhiloMadrid Skype meeting: Wed 13th December at 8:00pm: Science and
Technology – essay link


Dear Friends,


Our next meeting is on the 13th December because of the long holiday
weekend we have this coming week.


On the 13th we are discussing: Science and Technology. I proposed the
topic and will try and have some ideas posted for my next email..

Science and Technology
https://www.philomadrid.com/2023/12/science-and-technology.html


NEWS:

Milton has asked me to share this message with you:
Hi Lawrence, as you know many people I thought to let you know that I am
looking for people to share an apartment. If you know someone, please
let me know…
My phone/Whatsapp is 640 548 064 and e-mail miltonriveramanga@gmail.com

Past News:

--Diego: Manifesto: The Beehive Complex: Dare to Dance in the Dark and
Rejoice in the Most Astonishing of Illusions.
The Beehive Complex is available here: https://amzn.eu/d/9U4AwmH
It's a short book and to the point!


--Un giro en el aire
Lucinda Maxwell (Teresa)
https://libros.cc/Un-giro-en-el-aire.htm?isbn=9788411753296
Also from Amazon.es ( https://amzn.eu/d/a6RY3AP )


--Oscar's book is now available from Oscar himself:
"Toranzo, 88 ilustraciones y coplillas" by Oscar at €35
https://www.philomadrid.com/2022/09/toranzo-88-ilustraciones-y-coplillas-by.html


--It is with great sadness that I have learnt Julian Martelli passed
away early in October this year, 2022. Julian was very active during our
meetings in Molly Malone and participation was always respected by all.
Christine kindly wants to share with us a photo of Julian with her and
friends. You can find the FaceBook link below.

I also include a link for our visit to Toledo in 2008 when Julian came
with us on the day trip.

Julian
https://www.philomadrid.com/2022/11/julian.html


--Jorge has kindly sent us the link to his book which is available for
Free Distribution at:
Evolution of Thought and its Influence on Society and Technology
https://www.adneli.com/store


Please let me know if you need the Skype link: preferably by WhatsApp.


Best and take care
Lawrence


telephone/WhatsApp: 606081813
Email: philomadrid@gmail.com
http://www.philomadrid.com

PhiloMadrid Skype meeting: Wed 13th December at 8:00pm: Science and
Technology + NEWS
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Science and Technology

 

Science and Technology

 

Topic and notes by Lawrence

 

Today we get the feeling that the idea of science serves certain people in society who wish to promote some irrational programme maybe to exploit economic or financial opportunities to the detriment of society in general.

 

Others talk about science to compare with religious dogma, which instantly betrays a lack of familiarity with science, or maybe to promote an agenda for political or ideological objectives.

 

Whilst the subject of science and technology in the political philosophy is very relevant in the 21st century, this would be a mammoth task to pursue earnestly for these notes.

 

Technology is today the darling of marketers and companies who usually go on to market up their products and services with unreasonable margins of profit. But there is no doubt that technology today has improved our lives and some companies still pay homage to science to distinguish their products; in the same way that companies still show people in white coats to sell their over the counter medicines.

 

But what are the philosophical issues regarding science and technology? The list is endless, but I will try to identify some topical issues.

 

The consensus is that science is the endeavour to discover the principles, sometimes called laws, of nature usually employing experience and experimentation to arrive at these principles. We can say that science is a methodology. However, not any experience, or any experiment will do. This is the most important aspect about science, there are norms, established procedures and protocols regulating how to account for experience and conduct experiments. And even more important this methodology is always evolving and improving.

 

Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to create “machines” to meet human needs. Technology is also referred to as applied science. This is where some modern confusion might result from the misuse and misunderstood language concepts such as science and technology.

 

In the public domain, science and technology are interchanged without further clarification. To take an extreme example we find a discourse of such concepts as “mad scientists” but we hardly ever hear of “mad technologists” or “evil technologists” but always of “evil scientists”. Forgetting, as mentioned above, for something to be science or technology, it must follow accepted methodologies.

 

Calling something, science, experiment or experience does not make it science or technology. Moreover, just because the person conducting such behaviour was or is recognised as a scientist or technician, it does not follow that what they are doing is science and technology.

 

This scenario need not involve malicious forethought, just a misapplication of the scientific method. The peer review gate keeping practice is the obvious place to detect such misapplication of the scientific method. Genuine mistakes do happen in science and even careless mistakes do get past the gatekeepers; maybe negative results of studies are normally not published to protect the reputation of honest scientists who, maybe, made a genuine mistake.

 

A second issue that is relevant for us is precisely the inevitable connection between science, which might be regarded as theory, and technology, which is indeed applied science. However, most times, advances in science are not as advanced as science. This is quite understandable since the robustness of technology has to include safety and risks to humans. But this is a serious challenge to human knowledge: sometimes science make advancements that we still do not have the technology to test these advancements, think of Einstein and the theory of relativity.

 

A final issue is whether today more resources are available to develop technology thus leaving advancements in science trailing behind technology. Should there be more resources made available for the advancement of new scientific theories?

 

Best

 

Lawrence

 

Best and take care

Lawrence

 

 

telephone/WhatsApp: 606081813

Email: philomadrid@gmail.com

http://www.philomadrid.com

 

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03 December 2023

PhiloMadrid Skype meeting: Wed 13th December at 8:00pm: Science and Technology + NEWS

PhiloMadrid Skype meeting: Wed 13th December at 8:00pm: Science and
Technology + NEWS


Dear Friends,


Our next meeting is on the 13th December because of the long holiday
weekend we have this coming week.


On the 13th we are discussing: Science and Technology. I proposed the
topic and will try and have some ideas posted for my next email..


NEWS:

Milton has asked me to share this message with you:
Hi Lawrence, as you know many people I thought to let you know that I am
looking for people to share an apartment. If you know someone, please
let me know…
My phone/Whatsapp is 640 548 064 and e-mail miltonriveramanga@gmail.com

Past News:

--Diego: Manifesto: The Beehive Complex: Dare to Dance in the Dark and
Rejoice in the Most Astonishing of Illusions.
The Beehive Complex is available here: https://amzn.eu/d/9U4AwmH
It's a short book and to the point!


--Un giro en el aire
Lucinda Maxwell (Teresa)
https://libros.cc/Un-giro-en-el-aire.htm?isbn=9788411753296
Also from Amazon.es ( https://amzn.eu/d/a6RY3AP )


--Oscar's book is now available from Oscar himself:
"Toranzo, 88 ilustraciones y coplillas" by Oscar at €35
https://www.philomadrid.com/2022/09/toranzo-88-ilustraciones-y-coplillas-by.html


--It is with great sadness that I have learnt Julian Martelli passed
away early in October this year, 2022. Julian was very active during our
meetings in Molly Malone and participation was always respected by all.
Christine kindly wants to share with us a photo of Julian with her and
friends. You can find the FaceBook link below.

I also include a link for our visit to Toledo in 2008 when Julian came
with us on the day trip.

Julian
https://www.philomadrid.com/2022/11/julian.html


--Jorge has kindly sent us the link to his book which is available for
Free Distribution at:
Evolution of Thought and its Influence on Society and Technology
https://www.adneli.com/store


Please let me know if you need the Skype link: preferably by WhatsApp.


Best and take care
Lawrence


telephone/WhatsApp: 606081813
Email: philomadrid@gmail.com
http://www.philomadrid.com

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