The Pusat Islam organized a talk on Islam and the philosophy of science. (Click the image for the paper. But the paper does not cover the queston of ethics of science, taken up during the talk.)
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A workshop was held at Al-Bukhari International University to formulate a new curriculum for the history and philosophy of science. Scholars from 3 countries participated. Here is the announcement for the workshop, and an earlier one on the Multiversity site. The issue is part of the decolonisation agenda, but was precipitated when…
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To teach science one needs to know the right stories of how science developed. That is one needs a truthful history of science, not the trash history one gets from the West. Strange that all those who talk of teaching students to innovate can only blindly imitate the syllabus from Western universities!
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Colonialism used church propaganda to inculcate the myth of Western superiority among the colonised. It is high time to break this dirty and evil myth, which is still propagated by our schools and universities. Had the British not got Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (through Savarkar), to ensure Nehru’s supremacy, we would have got real…
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Another way to see the religious bias in present-day science (see previous post) is to look at the way it is used to attack Islam. (Note: specifically science vs Islam, not science vs “religion”.) See my paper on “Islam and Science” Indian Journal of Secularism, 15(2), 2011, pp. 14-29. For example, consider…
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The following papers were published in July on my teaching experiments on calculus. (Should have blogged about it long ago.) “Teaching mathematics with a new philosophy”, Part 1: “Formal mathematics as biased metaphysics”, Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp. 275-80 Part 2: “Calculus without limits” Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp.…
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My response to Wildavsky appeared in Global Higher Ed blog at http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/decolonising-our-universities-time-for-change/ The conversation in the Sun has been updated to 15 Sep 2011, at http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=61. The response to EPW appeared in EPW 46(34) 20 Aug 2011. This seriously modified my original response, which was as follows.
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This talk announced below was to have been webcast live. Update: The videos were long ago taken down by USM, and my versions do not work any more. The videos are now posted at Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEK1FCrLHjU Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf5co3G3R8 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZU949Cnw Anyway, the video is now online at…
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Why is math difficult? The new answer is: because post-Crusade Christian theology got mixed with it. So, the way to make math easy is to eliminate the theology in it. Here is an article on it, for the layperson, from The New Strait Times, 24 July 2011 (click an image…
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Here is my paper, talk, for the decolonisation conference. Here is the report in the Sun by its former chief editor, Zainon Ahmad, 1 July (click to enlarge) (or online). Here are also the reactions (click to enlarge).