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Scientonomy seminar is held annually by [http://hps.utoronto.ca/ the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science], University of Toronto. The seminar usually starts in January and ends in April consisting of 11 discussion sessions. The main goal of the seminar is to scrutinize different aspects of the our current [[Scientonomy|scientonomic theory knowledge]] and formulate as many open questionsas possible. As opposed to the [[Scientonomy Workshop|workshop]] format, the seminar's primary objective is unearthing the drawbacks of our current scientonomic knowledge, i.e. understanding '''what does not work'''. While the seminar also often generates interesting ideas on how this or that question problem can be solved, the primary outcome of the seminar is the list of open questions. The idea is to provide questions for future research.

* '''scrutinizing ''' each aspect of the current theory and understanding what is not working;* '''generating ideas''' ideas on how the theory can be improved by finding solutions to topical issues. It took the seminar three full iterations before it became clear that its main focus it should be mainly focusing on the former task, i.e. on compiling a list of open questions for future research. As for finding solutions to open questions, it was appreciated that the seminar is not the best format for it. Solutions to open problems require proper research papers; only when an idea is published can the community begin to appraise it and decide whether it is acceptable or not. This idea is in the foundation of the [[Journal of Scientonomy]].  Although the previous iterations of the seminar produced a number of interesting open questions, the seminar of 2016 was the first to aim directly at producing open questions. It was the first year when a comprehensive list of open questions was generated.