Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joanna L. Crosby" <jcrosby-AT-Morgan.EDU>
Subject: Re: X-files makes Diane wonder




Sometime recently, 'Karl' wrote:
> It is merely our subjective way of experiencing "reality". It is not
> objective. 

Part of the problem, indeed, may be that the subjective has been 
irrevocably blurred with the objective.  I think Adorno said as 
much in an essay entitled 'Subject, Object'.  A very intersting
source on a socially constructed objectivity is Helen Longino.  In
her book, _Science as Social Knowledge_, she shows in a very rigorious 
way how objectivity can incorporate a great deal of subjectivity, 
and still come up with lots of facts.  This, however, is a very 
different objectivity than the one demanding a god's eye point of
view, one that refuses to see how the observer can influence
what is observed.  While I think that Longino bases her reading
of Foucault too much on what Dreyfus and Rabinow have to say, he
project seems to be very friendly to his kind of critique.


Just trying to stay on the topic and avoid those pesky 
ad hominem attacks, as 'Karl' has so patiently advised.

Joanna Crosby
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD