Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:19:11 +0000
From: "Bayard G. Bell" <bbell01-AT-vader.cc.emory.edu>
Subject: Foucauldian readings on the History and Philosophy of Scientific Rationality


Fellow Foucauldians,
     I am trying to compile something of a preliminary bibliography for
a class entitled "Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Rationality."
This class is to be a one-month/five-days-a-week/three-hour-a-day
seminar at a charter school for science and math education introducing
students to the history and philosophy of scientific rationality.  I
have been reading a great deal of Foucault, but I am also aware that
there is a great deal out there.  My particular interests at this point
are the Foucauldian project of examining the subject's ability to
understand itself as an object of knowledge and the relationship between
scientific discourses and discourses of social management (such as the
ideas of using statistics as a tool of government and understanding the
subjects of government as a "population," ideas found in the first
volume of the _History of Sexuality_).
     I would appreciate any suggestions in background readings for
myself and readings at a (very) advanced high school level/undergraduate
level.  Please understand that I am not trying to use this list as a
substitute for library research, but Foucault's work and works of a
Foucauldian perspective are of considerable volume.  Any more general
pedagogical suggestions would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Bayard Bell

P.S. I apologize for not lurking a little longer, but this list did not
appear incredibly active - am I mistaken in this?