Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Foster responds

[ravi narayan <gadfly@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

> At 10:11 AM 6/29/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
> > Careful Jim, next thing you know you'll be reading Barbara Herrnstein
> > Smith and Bruno Latour! :-)
>
>
> I've never heard of those folks. Who are they?



http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/
http://www.duke.edu/literature/BHS.html

academics in science studies, critical theory, etc. we already did
a relativist, positivist, pomo discussion earlier, and being a
newbie i hesitate to go farther here.



> The late Richard Feynman was a great scientist and I find the quote in
> my signature line (see below) to be a very clear statement of one aspect
> of my philosophy. That doesn't mean I agree with everything he did or said.

> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http:/bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
> "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." -- Richard Feynman.



feynman was a great physicist, i would agree, but not all his
arrogant proclamations (such as that philosophers are "second-rate
thinkers") were very coherent ones. i do not understand feynman's
sentence well. i do not for instance understand what this thing
called "science" is that feynman is referring to: its a "way"?
i.e., a "method"? a "means"? (of course it could all just be my
inability to comprehend his thought) - i guess with these
questions i show a tendency to overcome my hesitation of the
previous paragraph!

	--ravi