Date:          Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:03:42 +0000
Subject:       Re: Intellectual violence


>Date:          Fri, 04 Feb 2000 22:02:44 +0100
>From:          Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms-AT-kabelfoon.nl>
>To:            bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject:       Re: Intellectual violence
>Reply-to:      bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>
>Perhaps Kuhn's theory was intended to hold for science in the first 
>place, but since his
>appraoch is based on Wittgenstein's spell-theory, I don't see why it 
>couldn't be developed
>to hold for the humanities as well, be it with some modification. I'm 
>not acqainted enough
>with the field, but it wouldn't surprise me if this would need some 
>more study and if
>Bourdieu's work could be of some help. I've been always very 
>uncomfortable with the term
>'multi-paradigmatic fase', which was mainly used for psychology and 
>sociology.
>
>
>erik
>
>Jerry Shepperd wrote:
>
>> At 06:36 PM 02/04/2000 -0000, you wrote:
>> >Kuhn's book, I think, has no application outside the natural 
>sciences and I
>> >don't believe he intended the idea to be taken outside.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I can't speak for what Kuhn intended.  However, there are many
>> psychologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, political
>> scientists, philosophers who would be very surprised to find that  
>Kuhn's
>> book "has no application outside the natural sciences."
>> If that is true, many people have wasted many hours plowing through 
>his
>> book and attempting to apply it to a number of areas where there 
>appear to
>> be paradigm shifts.
>
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