Wikipedia Science Conference/Submissions/Encyclopedism from Neurath to Wikipedia
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University of East London
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Both days
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- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for promoting informed public discussion
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for research (including citizen science)
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as models for scientific publishing
- Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for scientific education
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- Presentation (20 mins + 10 mins questions)
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Otto Neurath (1882 1945) spent the last part of his life promoting the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (IEUS). The project was continued after his death, the second volume being completed in 1970. It included Thomas Kuhn's seminal The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Although Neurath was very influential in his life time as a prominent member of the Viennese Circle collaborating with such prominent physicists such as Einstein and Bohr his encyclopedia is often considered as a failure. This presentation will look at Neurath's notion of verifiability and compare it with Wikipedia:Verifiability:
- To what extent can we see Wikipedia as embodying elements of Neurath's encyclopedia
- To what extent can Neurath's approach to empiricism provide validation to the Wikimedia approach whether as a platform or model for publishing
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