Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 23:30:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: "D. Ronan Hallowell" <holo-AT-netcom.com>
Subject: Re: kirez korgan
To: technology-AT-world.std.com



I agree with Malgosia's comments. The objective and rigorous thing 
becomes problematic because historically science (as prescribed by 
scientists) has claimed that it is the only epistemoloical method which 
produces "objective & rigorous" knowdledge.

Jean-Francois Lyotard talks about the socio-politics of the legitimation of 
knowledge in _The Post Modern Condition_ A very useful piece on 
informaiton society and postmodern being.

I am for critical consciousness (which implies intellectual rigor) but am 
very wary of those elitists who are certain of their position and find no 
problem in imposing there biases on others by enforcing various regimes 
of truth.

I suggest Kirgez read the cognitive biologists Humberto Maturana and 
Francisco Varela for a discussion of certainty of position and the 
social/ontogenetical construction of knowledge.