Re: [Pen-l] Who saw the bubble coming: A chronology of media coverageof the housing bubble

[Ted Winslow <egwinslow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> Mike Ballard wrote:
> > "...without the making of theories, I am convinced there would be  
> > no observation."  Charles Darwin, 1860
> > http://www.iww.org.au/
>
> Darwin was probably not even close to be first in this perception, but
> considering his "empiricist" credentials, this might be considered the
> most powerful condemnation ever of trying to reach 'truth' by
> generalizing empirical data.

There's a continental philosophical tradition, the "phenomenological"  
tradition originated by Edmund Husserl,  that disputes the idea that  
all experience is necessarily theory-laden, an idea having absurd  
epistemological implications.

As I've pointed out before, there's a reading of Marx,  
"phenomenological Marxism", that links him to this tradition.  See,  
for example, Karel Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete and Enzo Paci's  
Function of the Sciences and the Meaning of Man.

Ted
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