A scientific evening with Aristotle, C.S. Peirce and A. Einstein
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 26, Issue 74
Abstract
The author presents the universal relations between knowledge of philosophical, scientific and technical nature, seen from the perspective of the motor control. He discusses three technologies of thinking: induction, abduction and deduction, and emphasizes the function of theory in science. Basing on this, he builds some intellectual structures which may be presented in easily graspable graphical form: the Philosophy-Science-Technology Funnel (PST-Funnel), the Street Lamp Analogy (SLA), the Induction-Abduction-Deduction Triangle (IAD) and the House of Thoughts and Deeds (HTD). Finally, he shows the position of motor control among other biological and psychological sciences in a form analogous to HTD – the Hut of Sport Sciences (HSS). This clearly shows the fact that first of all, motor control needs philosophical and theoretical considerations – not rarely disregarded by “genuine scientists”– often even detached from reality. Only the apparently “blue sky thinking” makes up the “leading edge” of scientific progress, and not the “new, original, experimental data” – sober, hard, processed according to “acknowledged methodology”, indeed, yet in itself - infertile. The general issue of this paper regards the relation between experiments and speculations in science, and the general thesis – that especially in motor control, the share of scientific thinking is by far greater than that of experimental research. Moreover, in this discipline, the elegant and user-friendly mathematics cannot be successfully applied, as in, e.g., physics. This is why nowadays only motor control – no doubt the most theoretical from among all the sciences on physical culture – constitutes probably the greatest challenge to the whole of contemporary science.
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Wacław Petryński
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