Thread by @SAH16928046

Two problems were identified with the education of #STEM based subjects.
Instructors at unis tend to pass on only #methodology, proof-writing & all the loaded #mathematical language of #symbols working in the backdrop.
But, ignore the #history & #philosophy of hard sciences.

Many A-level students study physics and get good grades, but they know little to nothing about Galileo, Maxwell, or Newton or the other greats!
Engineers do mathematics but have no clue about Euler, Laplace, Gauss, Fermat, Bernoulli and their personal rivalries and lives.

The same holds true for economists
No student can get a degree in economics without studying Keynes.
But, has anyone ever read about his personal life?
Keynes had a voracious appetite for stock trading, was sexually not straight, and was a non-economics degree holder.

Ever heard about #Thabit #Ibn #Qurra?
his contribution to number theory when Baghdad was the cradle of knowledge transference in the Civilized World.
How do Arab Mathematicians work endlessly to develop different sciences?
Why have they failed now?
That needs a course of history.

One cannot understand the European Renaissance without studying the history of the #Moors in the Iberian Peninsula.
Similarly, the contribution of #Greek Philosophy to the development and dissemination of information plus knowledge in the Middle East is most cited.

Why did Leibniz and Newton never get married?
These 2 were the founders of calculus in maths
But we need to study history and philosophical views which scientists held before they began, and after they completed, their works.
We need to study the environment in which they thrived

I am not denigrating anyone!!
Lots of DMs coming my way.
To know the man is to know his work in its entirety.
How can we discuss #science, but ignore its history, and the philosophical/logical, cultural, religious, political, economic and societal contexts?

You need virgin eyes to study the truth and reject the falsehood across all walks of life.
The same holds true in science.
Scientists have a personal history, and they belong to times which we need to carefully analyze before passing judgements
History, Philosophy and Methodology

Although I doubt if Psychology can be regarded as a science!
However hard, it's erstwhile supporters try to add maths and statistics in peer-reviewed journal articles to dress it up.
For e.g. the #Psychoanalytic #Freudians I have met had weird opinions on sex and other matters.

The same can be said about other practising psychologists.
For e.g. many notable students/disciples of Carl Jung remain either atheistic or agnostic to date.
What do they have in common in terms of behavioural traits?
Something in common, perhaps? somewhere? hmmm.

One has to draw attention to the persecution of scientists everywhere.
For e.g. the Mu'tazilites in the Moslem World were declared out of bounds with the mainstream.
The ruler defined what did or didn't constitute religion, law or science for that matter.
He had the last word!

Pakistani physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy laid out the grim statistics in a 2007 Physics Today article: Muslim countries have nine scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand people, compared with a world average of forty-one.
source: thenewsatlantic.com

"In these nations, there are approximately 1,800 universities, but only 312 of those universities have scholars who have published journal articles."
Pervez Hoodbhoy
source:thenewsatlantic.com

Philosophy, al-#Kindi asserted, was an exercise in discovering – and acting following – the truth (again, al-ḥaqq).

Al Kindi wrote:
"We must not be ashamed to admire the truth or to acquire it, from wherever it comes. Even if it should come from far-flung nations and foreign peoples, there is for the student of truth nothing more important than the truth"