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Section IV: Art, Theatre, Literature, Music, Culture
Workshop: The Truth of Myth and the Myth of
Truth
Chairs: Brayton Polka and
The idea at play in
this workshop is that science presupposes the nonscientific discourse/world of
myth, i.e. that it is fiction that allows us to have a scientific conception of
the world that is not mythical. But what are the criteria for determining
scientific truth and fictional truth, and what is the relationship between
these forms of truth? Is it the case that we can distinguish between
truth and falsehood solely on the basis of the story of the eating of the
fruit of knowledge of good and evil by original man and woman as found in
Genesis? Is the very origin of truth itself a myth, a fiction? Is
all knowledge, including our very distinction between science and fiction,
mythical? Is science itself a fiction? A venerable way of
addressing these issues is to ask, to paraphrase Tertullian: What does Greek
myth have to do with biblical myth?
It is hoped that those working in literature, religion, and philosophy (including
the philosophy of science, ethics, and metaphysics) and related fields,
like Jungian psychology, will be interested in engaging their colleagues
in the exciting issues raised by examining the relationship between science and
fiction.
Co-chairs
Brayton Polka,
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