On the 7th of November 2013, Ciaran Healy gave a talk on ‘Noumenal Contouring; The Secret Of Science, The Secret Of Skill’. This is a summary and podcast of the event when Ciaran was kind enough to take the time to share his thinking and inspiration with everyone:
The Philosophy Of Science is best understood as a kind of unsolved crime, but instead of a crime you have the most incredible and unprecedented advanced in understanding. But like an unsolved crime, nobody has yet accounted for why it happened, or how it happened. The philosophy of science means you undertake that investigation. Read more…
For many centuries people assumed that the universe was a certain shape. That reality was a certain shape. That shape was this – that you have the Earth at the centre, a sphere. Around the sphere are other spheres, made of crystal. In those spheres sit embedded the stars, the planets, the moon, the sun. Everything you see in the sky is embedded in a crystal sphere.
