Project
title:
Body and Calculus in 20th Century Science.
Abstract:
In the beginning was the Word (John 1,1). For two millennia, mishearing
the proper Message, which is that the Word was made flesh (1,14) people
wanted to know “what was the word?” instead of “What
happened?”. As a result, our civilization takes all properties
of the world as entities that could, indeed should, be transformable
into strings of signs, and these afterwards manipulated by formal
rules (calculus, logic, grammar, algorithms). We suggest an alternate
approach coming out not from formal procedures within virtual words
but from the bodily experience of living beings situated in the real
world. Here, the nature of knowledge is hermeneutical and is rooted
in experience, history and in structures.
Short
biography:
Dr
Markos holds a Ph.D in Biology and Physiology from the Faculty of
Sciences at Charles University in Prague. He has been teaching cell
physiology and developmental biology since 1972. Between 1994 and
2002 he was a member of the Center of Theoretical Study, a trans-disciplinary
body formed by the Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Since 2002, he is the head of the Department of Philosophy and History
of Sciences at the Faculty of Sciences.
