The Cassandra Syndrome, or How not to be a Prophet

• Authors: Peter Swirski

Abstracts

EN

The central question of the article is should Stanisław Lem be read as a futurologist? The main thesis is that more than in predicting the future Lem always has been more interested in exploration the conceptual limits of science and its technological offshoots.

Keywords

EN

Stanisław Lem; Hugo Gernsbacher; Herbert George Wells; futurology; conceptual limits of science

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
• Journal: Filozofia i Nauka
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 31-40

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Peter Swirski

Identifiers

DOI

10.37240/FiN.2022.10.1.5

Biblioteka Nauki

31234051