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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
SCIENCE AS PLAY
Pierre Laszlo
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and University of Liège, Belgium
January 22, 2004
Thursday, 4:00pm
Sumwalt College, Room 102
The playful element in science, a given for many of its practitioners, is
too seldom studied by psychologists, sociologists, historians and
philosophers. This paper, by considering topics such as the importance of
play in the making of a scientist; experiments and modeling as play; or yet
the referee report as cat-and-mouse play, will attempt (without undue
seriousness) to identify a number of real issues regarding various
narratives of science, the interplay between the personal and the social
dimensions of play in particular.
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