Measurement science in methodological instruction of Ph.D. students of technoscience

摘要

Technoscience is a result of integration of technology with empirical sciences, including not only physical sciences, but also life sciences, social sciences and cognitive sciences. The development of technoscience is unthinkable without measurement and mathematical modelling, being two interrelated operations used for acquisition and representation of knowledge. Measurement fundamentals must, therefore, belong to the core of methodological instruction of Ph.D. students of technoscience. This keynote speech will provide an outline of a graduate course on methodological aspects of technoscientific research, whose programme includes conceptual analysis of the dialectical relationship between measurement and mathematical modelling, of the role of measurement in scientific explanation, of the role of measurement in the context of discovery and in the context of justification, as well as of the role of measurement in mitigating uncertainty of scientific knowledge.