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Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:30-17:00
Science as communication
- đ¤ Speaker: Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
- đ Venue: Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site
Abstract
Science is a form of communication, but its analysis from this standpoint has often been fragmented between diverse approaches and specialties, from textual criticism and media sociology to book history, citation analysis and translation studies. As a result, work not devoted to these subjects often implicitly treats the communicative dimension of science as an afterthought, managed after the main work is done. This talk aims to bring communication to the centre of our understanding of science. My goal is not to offer a unified overview of the vast literatures on pragmatics, translation, visual culture, the philosophy of linguistics and other areas, but to point to practical perspectives that might help in interpreting science at every stage as communicative action.
Series This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.
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