Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:26:33 -0400
Subject: BHA: More On: Progressive sociology (small notices)


Sociology a science ?

And we just imagine that (a)practical order (b) natural order (c) social order intersect somewhere some how - how could then should argue that indeed there is a paradigmatic moment in the human scientific project?

I ask in wake of my narrow familiarity with science- which does actually seem a very illusive project in regard to human affairs (economic - man). 

In the 'Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom' Bhaskar Roy writes, thus ? "what we are told in revolutionary science are new- revolutionary- stories(intransitive dimensions) about the causes of natural phenomena. Moreover in social life the principle of existential intransitivity holds just the same. Thus redescribing the past in a revolutionary way can cause radical new changes, including a new sense of identity, self-definition or auto-biography. But it cannot retrospectively cause old changes , i.e. alter the past as distinct from its interpretation. (1991:11)"

He goes on to right ? that the notation of intransitive objects of inquiry, as distinct from transitive result? To make sense of ( a) our cognitive practices (the ways we change and augment the planks in the boat); (b) the uses of knowledge (the cognition- dependent activities- fishing, ferrying, cruising- in which we seafarers engage; and (c) the historical formation of the sciences (the process by which the boat got built in the first place and might yet get sunk). (1991: 13)


Here is the link 

http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2001/msg00676.html

bwanika.

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