Vasbinder Jan W
Para Limes, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Psych J. 2017 Dec;6(4):316-325. doi: 10.1002/pchj.199. Epub 2017 Dec 12.
To a large extent, the pursuit of science takes place in universities. In this essay, I ask the following questions. Supposing there were no universities, and that all the knowledge mankind has ever collected and generated is somehow accessible, would we invent universities to make this knowledge available to address the problems humanity faces? What should those universities perform, and what role would science play in such universities? To look for answers to those questions, I consider the nature of the problems dealt with by science, the knowledge needed to address those problems, the gap between the two, the need for interdisciplinarity and the need to educate the leaders of the future, and finally, the boundaries of scientific knowledge.
在很大程度上，对科学的追求是在大学中进行的。在本文中，我提出以下问题。假设没有大学，并且人类曾经收集和产生的所有知识都能以某种方式获取，我们会发明大学来使这些知识可用于解决人类面临的问题吗？那些大学应该发挥什么作用，科学在这样的大学中会扮演什么角色？为了寻找这些问题的答案，我思考了科学所处理问题的本质、解决这些问题所需的知识、两者之间的差距、跨学科的必要性以及培养未来领导者的必要性，最后，还有科学知识的边界。
