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Arthur Gauthier writes the Geek column in this issue, focusing on Whisper.
Laure Colin reports on the book coordinated by David Stark and devoted to the performance complex, while Maxence Aucouturier looks back at the work of Alain Desrosières.
Vienna and Dublin complete this issue.
Dublin, because the Euram symposium was held there in June this year. One text deals with the challenges facing management sciences, while others evoke the three great literary figures of the Irish city: Swift, Yeats and Joyce,
Vienna, meanwhile, was the center of the scientific world between the end of the 19th century and the Anschluss. A series of articles are devoted to this period.
The first presents Karl Sigmund's reference book on the Schlick Circle, better known as the Vienna Circle. In it, we meet Wittgenstein, of course, Popper, Gödel and all the great researchers of the time, through the sumptuous and tragic history of the former capital of the Habsburgs.
The second is a little book by Moritz Schlick, who was not only a physicist and philosopher of science, but also a meditation on the meaning of life.
The debate between Mach and Boltzmann on the existence of atoms, followed by a pamphlet by Hans Hahn, highlighted the question of Occam's razor. This is the third topic in the dossier.
If science does not rest on an ultimate foundation - the foundation Descartes sought in the cogito and the demonstration of God's existence - how can it be based on an ultimate foundation?
