La infinita apertura de la razón. Ciencia moderna y sentido del misterio

Paolo Musso

doi:10.35626/sv.15.2011.89

Authors

Paolo Musso Universidad de la Insubria de Varese

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35626/sv.15.2011.89

Keywords:

Galileo, Descartes, science, method, reason, modernism, mechanicalism

Abstract

According to a very common opinion, modern science was created by Galileo Galilei and René Descartes. This implies Cartesian rationalism and mechanicalism to be essential elements of science as such, while in reality their origin is only philosophical, since Descartes never was a scientist. So, in the Renaissence they were not born one new culture (the modernism) and one new idea of reason (the rationalism), but two: the first based on Galileo”™s experimental method and an open idea of reason, and the second, completely opposite, baesd on Descartes”™s philosophy and a close idea of reason which does not believe in the possibility of discovering truth into experience.

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Author Biography

Paolo Musso, Universidad de la Insubria de Varese

Paolo Musso es docente de Filosofía de la Ciencia en la Universití dell”™Insubria de Varese. Ha estudiado los problemas del realismo científico, de la interpretación filosófica del caos determinista, del problema de la complejidad y de la mecánica cuántica; de cuestiones metodológicas y éticas en medicina y, especialmente en los últimos años, de bioastronomía. Es miembro del SETI Permanent Committee de la International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), el máximo organismo científico a nivel mundial en el campo de la exploración del espacio. Ha publicado Rom Harré e il problema del realismo scientífico (Angeli, Milán 1993), Filosofia del caos (Angeli, Milán 1997), Convivere con la bomba. Dalla bioetica alla biopolitica (ESI, Nápoles 2001) y (como editor) Il dolore e la medicina. Alla ricerca di senso e di cure (SEF, Firenze 2005), además de numerosos ensayos y artículos.