File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 35


Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 00:42:16 -0800
From: hugh bone <hughbone-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Eagleton


Ed Atkeson wrote:
> 
> Eric Salstrand:
> >>> I also have to disagree with the notion that science is just a narrative and I think Lyotard would have disagreed as well.  Science does not simply tell us stories.  It plays a quite different language game than that.  It does use narratives to legitimize itself as a project or to explain itself in layperson's terms, but this does not allow us to make the move that science is merely a social construct.  I personally believe it possible to be postmodern without being either relativistic or po
> -------------
> I'm glad you said this. Lyotard seems hold science in high regard.  I
> notice E.O. Wilson in his last book Consilience, spends quite a few
> pages decrying postmodernism because it sees science as just one
> worldview among many, like in the Eagleton quote.

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Science seems to limit itself to observing and relating entities in the
so-called "real" world.

Some say science began with riddles posed at banquets of the ancient
Greeks; a love of problem-solving.  

Science does not normally address philosophical questions we ask and
choices we make about the conduct of our individual lives.

Ordinarily, social sciences must have empirical evidence; usually
quantifiable via questionnaires and legitimated by the assent of
cientists of established competence.

Hugh Bone


   

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