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Category: Lectures

Science as play

The playful element in science, a given for many of its practitioners, is too seldom studied by psychologists, sociologists, historians and philosophers. This paper, by considering topics such as: the importance of play in the making of a scientist; experiments and modeling as play; or yet the referee report as cat-and-mouse play, will attempt (without undue seriousness) to identify a number of real issues regarding various narratives of science, the interplay between the personal and the social dimensions of play in particular.

Foreword to NO

a play by Carl Djerassi and Pierre Laszlo

Science Theatre in the Classroom

It is recognized universally that the gulf between the sciences and the other cultural worlds of the humanities and social sciences is increasingly widening and that any attempt to narrow it should be welcomed. “Pedagogic wordplays” constitute a novel attempt along those lines.