Basil Evangelidis
I am an author and researcher in the field of the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, Logic, Space Science, Ethics, Education and World History. In 1990-1995, I attended a Bachelor in Philosophy and Education at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. The next years (1995-98), I made historical research in the areas of Industrial Archaeology, at the National Research Centre, Athens, Greece, and European Enlightment and Manuscript Digitalization at the University of Athens, in the frame of the program Hellenomnemon. From 2005 to 2008, I attended Master Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the University and Technical University of Athens. My Master-Thesis was on the Social History of the Railways. In the years 2008-2012, I continued at the level of PhD with a Dissertation in the Philosophy of Technology and the History of Electrification. I was also awarded with a Master in Education at the John Moores Liverpool University (2011-2012). In 2017-2018, I attended the Philosophy and History of Science program at Leiden University and subsequently the Fernuniversität in Hagen, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik. My research agenda is instructively illustrated by the contents of my recent books, 1) Landmarks in the History of Science: Great Scientific Discoveries from a Global Historical Perspective, and 2) Reason, causation and compatibility with the phenomena, published by Vernon Press in Delaware, USA. The analysis of the distinction between belief and faith is indispensable in my scientific and philosophical practices. I develop my personal way of thinking, feeling and believing as a method of confrontation with inconsistent argumentation.
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The ambivalence between instrumental, contextual and social approaches is obvious in these disputes. A justified answer to these problems may be that the mediators of technology are not simply channeling technology,
but neither are the users passive consumers. Societies resist and eventually incorporate the new into the old, and their citizens selectively modify and use technologies to create new cultures and new forms of modernization.
There is an interactive social construction which modifies technologies and creates new forms of artificial life.
This work will be of interest to those either researching or studying in colleges and universities, especially in the departments of philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and quantum mechanics, history of ideas and culture. Greek and Latin Literature students and instructors may also find this book to be both a fascinating and valuable point of reference.
Keywords: medieval philosophy, consequence, validity, formality, inference, implication, proof theory, semantic, syntactic, natural deduction
It begins with Ancient Greek science, as one of the first self-conscious, comprehensive and well-documented scientific endeavors at the global level. The numerous contributions of the Greeks, in philosophy, mathematics, geometry, geography and astronomy, momentous as they were, were fruits of leisure rather than industry. It then examines the history of science in China and China’s exchanges with India and Islam. A systematic and collaborative scientific effort is the hallmark of Chinese science. The contributions of the Chinese in medicine, printing, manufacturing and navigation invariably predate and outshine those of western contemporaries.
Attention then shifts to the age of oceanic discoveries, which created the inexorable presuppositions for the genesis of global trade and a world system. From the inner organs of the organisms to the outer regions of Earth, Renaissance science was ubiquitous. The importance of inter-cultural scientific syncretism is highlighted, with the Iberian Peninsula as meeting point and crossroad of mutual affection between Arab, Jewish and European culture. Discoveries and inventions in metallurgy, electromagnetism and the science of petroleum set the scientific basis for the industrial revolution. The logic of the industrial revolution dictates developments in information technologies that culminate with the invention of modern computers. A dedicated chapter on the history of modern scientific conceptions of the universe showcases the subtle links in the fabric of seminal ideas in physics and astronomy. The book concludes with some reflections on the relationship between philosophy and the history of science. Following Kuhn and Latour, this discussion centers on the characteristics of continuities, ruptures and paradigmatic transitions in science.
and traditional. Reformist politicians (Hatzivassiliou, 2010), public works constructors, manufacturers, engineers, technicians, producers of electrical equipment,
educational institutions, associations and communities, were the protagonists of the transformation of the region of Greece, with electrification, communications,
transportation, monetarization, elevation of the quality of life. A revolution, "the most peaceful and the most groundbreaking" (Konstantinidis, 1957: 641), had apparently begun. At a time when the country was coming out ravaged of a fifty-year period of titanian warfare, the economic and technical role of the modernizers (Botsiou, 2009) who were promoting the optimistic ‘technoscience’ (Kakridis, 2009) was strengthened.
Similar opinions reveal that our understanding of autism is influenced by social practices, positions, networks and privileges. Characteristically enough, the Greek Curriculum for Autism (Pedagogical Institute, 2003) supposes, with pessimism, that some children with autism will never learn to speak. And recently, Syriopoulou-Delli (2011) contends that the behaviouristic approach remains the dominant treatment of autism, even though behaviourism neglects intellectual problems. On account of such questions, autism and special education appear as complicated and serious political, ideological and social issues, where oversimplifications are absolutely inappropriate.