Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 18:01:05 +1200 From: Nesta <na.devine-AT-auckland.ac.nz> Subject: Re: Foucauldian examinations of The Market Malgosia, In relation to your question , <do you think...that science evinces any sort of application of the thought of any 19th century German philopher>, Barry Smith, 'Aristotle, Menger, Mises' in the Annual supplement to vol 22, History of political economy, ed Bruce Caldwell, 1990 - argues that Aristotle is the background to German sciences of all kinds, so taken for granted that he is not mentioned or questioned. The legacy of this thinking for contemporary science is probably through Popper. It would be hard to argue that neither Aristotle nor Popper had had an effect on science. It might be that the kind of critique Wynship mentions is a kind of reaction to Aristotelean science, which because of the popular alliance between 'common sense' and teleological views of technology, is very hard to make a dint in. Wynship, would you not think that Foucault had had some effect upon psychiatry? He tends not to take on the 'hard' sciences: I vaguely remember reading a discussion of that phenomenon in a biography - perhaps a notion that that was Canguilhem's patch?? Nesta
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