Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:39:05 +0100
From: Karl Maton <karl.maton-AT-dtn.ntl.com>
Subject: Re: autonomy


Hi everyone,

Emilio Tenti wrote:
> 
> 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

I think emilio has defined autonomy, but the question of how PB proposes
this be achieved (for he obviously calls for autonomy) remains.   


-- 
With best wishes,

Karl 

Karl Maton
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