Get ready for the new edition of ShanghaiTech Summer School “Science & Art in Italian Culture: from History to Modern Times” from 27th to 31st July 2020. The 5th edition will be held online and the Chinese students will join …
1,100 N95 masks and 10,000 surgery masks have been donated from ShanghaiTech University to the University of Padua. ShanghaiTech is a strategic partner of the University, as indicated in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2015. Each year around 35 …
Ranking: Shanghai places Unipd among the best universities in the world and at the top in Italy When choosing and enrolling at a university, rankings are tools that can be useful to understand the positioning of universities both internationally and …
This is a question Professor Mark Elliott from National University of Ireland (Galway) will try to answer in his Lecture on 24th August, at the Don Orione Foundation in Venice. An experimental psychologist and measurement scientist, with a background in general psychology …
The Course will be organized in three separate, special locations: Venice, Asiago and Padova. Many tours to interesting sites will be also part of this stimulating summer school; for example a day-trip to Vicenza, a nominated UNESCO World Heritage Site …
In the Renaissance, Italy is the protagonist of a profound renewal both in the artistic field and in that of “natural philosophy”, then called science. Just think of the “dolce prospettiva” in painting and of the battle of Galileo Galilei …
Yesterday the ShanghaiTech Summer School hosted a full day dedicated to the origin of human beings. A series of lectures together with Prof. Francesco d’Errico from the University of Bordeaux with its talk on the “Origin of Symbolic Thinking in …
The German cell physiologist Bert Sackman will be our exceptional guest again this year. Nobel Prize winner in 1991, together with Erwin Neher, “for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells”, Sackman will honour us with …
The famous Italian researcher Francesco d’Errico will be our special guest in a full day dedicated to palaeoanthropology. During his career, this “scientific globetrotter”, as the University of Bordeaux calls the director of the CNRS Ecology and Environment Institute, has taken part …
To set the stage for considering the development that philosophy of science had in Italy, it is worthwhile to consider two main tendencies, present in the early stages of the Italian reflection on science. One was critical rationalism and the other was operationalism. …