Time: 13:15 - 14:45
At the Science after Noon on 24 August, after a short introduction the President of the Swiss Academies, Marcel Tanner, the author Luc Saner will present the book and the underlying project. Afterwards, there will be an open discussion followed by an aperitif.
The project “Unity of science and a real studium generale” has the not-so-modest aspiration of providing the foundations for the urgently needed generalists. When building these foundations, we must first of all bear in mind that our world today is increasingly dependent on the sciences (from German: Wissenschaften), if only because of the growing complexity. Secondly, our fundamental problems such as energy, the environment and population growth are transdisciplinary problems in scientific terms. These problems elude the grasp of the individual scientific disciplines – also when they are added together in a more interdisciplinary approach. Rather, we need additional transdisciplinary approaches that can unite the scientific disciplines under superordinate aspects and thereby change them: It is a matter of bringing together the different scientific disciplines, which is tantamount to a second enlightenment. Thirdly, today‘s sciences cannot guarantee this transdisciplinarity because they are led by specialists and lack the necessary generalists.
