Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 00:42:16 -0800 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. -AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT--AT- 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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