Language&mdash\;and by extension our story telling activities in\ngeneral&mdash\;enables usto confront\nthe contingencies of life by answering the immediate question: what&rsquo\;s happening\nand what is going to happen next. Science also attempts to answer this\nquestion. However\, there appears to be&mdash\;at least in the western cultural\ntradition&mdash\;a fundamental tension between the literary-artistic and the\nscientific projects: whereas the artist seeks to recreate human experience\,\nthereby evoking basic ethical issues\, the scientist seeks ethically-neutral\,\nevidence-based facts\, as the constituents of our knowledge of reality. It is\nthus left to others&mdash\;to the philosopher\, theologian\, critic\, or historian&mdash\;to\nbridge the theoretical and ethical gaps between the world of &lsquo\;fiction&rsquo\; and the\nworld of &lsquo\;fact&rsquo\;\, of art and science. Among other things\, the ever increasing\nrate of production of scientific data in the modern age poses a new multidisciplinary\nchallenge: how to address the unresolved/unresolvable tensions between the language of normativity and the\nlanguage of facticity.
\n\n\nContact: issei@nachshonim.org.il.
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