From: Emilio Tenti <Emilio-AT-iipe-buenosaires.org.ar>
Subject: RE: error messages 
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 08:44:13 -0300


IMHO,

The autonomy of the scientific fields is a social and historical (and not
inevitable and reversible) construction. Some intellectuals are interessed
in autonomy while others are not. Some intellectuals wont to win and to get
profits in different fiels in the same time: intellectual and political
field, por ex. More of that: some academics pretend to use political
resources in the scientic strugles (in the universites, etc.).

Autonomy is a relational concept, and refers to others social fiels,
specially political and economic fields. Autonomi refers to the capacity of
define scientific problems, to choise theoretical and metholological
strategies, to define truth criteria, to asses de "scientificity" of proces
and products, etc. 

An other question is: Who is interessed in autonomy and what are de social
conditions of production of such interest?

Emilio TENTI FANFANI
Faculty of Social Sciences
Buenos Aires University
emilio-AT-iipe-buenosaires.org.ar
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