TITLE:
All Sciences Are Human and No Science Is Exact
AUTHORS:
Agamenon R. E. Oliveira
KEYWORDS:
Epistemology and Philosophy, Classification of Sciences, History of Sciences
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.9 No.3,
September
17,
2020
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.