Our thesis and mission
Humanity has entered a scientific era in which interdisciplinarity, technology, and global problems are shaping the classical sciences into new forms. Meanwhile, public interest in science has risen dramatically. This is an era of challenges in regard to the way we do science and the way we communicate it. Contemporary scientific research is seeking new conceptual frameworks and methodologies through which to accommodate interdisciplinarity, applicability, technology, and unification in various directions.
Science education is facing perhaps the biggest challenge adapting itself to the new science evolution, whether we are talking about formal school curricula or education for the general public.
In this fast-changing environment, we believe that academic books must leave to the web technologies the static role of dividing and organizing established knowledge and take the more active role of addressing the critical and foundational issues and questions of contemporary sciences, thereby contributing effectively to shaping and communicating the new science in an adequate form and language. Such books must guide the readers through the breadth and complexity of academic knowledge and show them the paths relevant to their interests. We believe that this new role requires new types of books, of style, format, and content. Our mission is to provide such books.
We also believe that with the challenges posed by contemporary science, the philosophical disciplines dealing with science will be revitalized with the mission of being more applicative than they ever were.
