From: "George Free" <gfree-AT-linux.ca> Subject: Re: Bourdieu and Objectivity Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:11:08 -0400 > >The questions I raised about the concept of a disposition are, I think, >logically prior to your concerns. That is, I don't understand what it would mean >to develop a scientific habitus. Whatever they are, dispositions must be >distinguished from conscious items of knowledge, or conscious methods, >conceptions, theories. So it then becomes very difficult to reconcile what we >normally think of as involved in doing science (i.e. exercising various >conscious, cognitive faculties) with a practice based on dispositions. At least >at first glance, one would think that "scientific habitus" is an oxymoron. [etc.] Bourdieu's ideas concerning scientific practice are not so unusual in the history of philosophy of science. Many similar notions can be found in the work of Michael Polanyi, for example. E.g., in his Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. Other examples can be found in the work of the American pragmatists. George ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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