Otávio Bueno contrasts the concept of style in art and science
Philosophy professor Otávio Bueno, from the University of Miami, will give a conference on the basic characteristics of the concepts of style in sciences and arts on October 17, at 2 pm, in the Auditorium of USP’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC).
The conference entitled ‘The Concept of Style in Art and Science’ will be Bueno’s way to explore what is distinctive and common in applications of the concept in both fields. He comments that science historian Alistair Crombie (1915-1996) believed that in science there are well-defined styles that feature forms of specific investigation (deductive, experimental, hypothetical, taxonomic, statistical and evolutionary). Bueno compares this observation to the fact that well-defined pictorial styles (considering only painting), such as naturalism, impressionism, cubism and abstract expressionism, have set major movements in art history.
Bueno is full professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He dedicates his research to the fields of philosophy of science, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics. More recently he has been involved with aesthetics. He is one of the editors of the epistemology and philosophy of science journal ‘Synthese’.
The conference is an initiative of IEA’s Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science and Technology Research Group.