All Sciences Are Human and No Science Is Exact
- 1 Department of Structures, Polytechnic School of UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract
The vertiginous development of science in the last decade, in several different fiel ds 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 t o acc ount for the complexity in the classification of sciences. It needs further ep istemological deepening.
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