Sign me up for the Scientism Orn - do we all get a magnetic resonance machine? I note these opportunists have neglected the very wide body of literature you have indicated over the last couple of years. I remember reading a learned article that stated little attention had been paid to 'management learning' - I was reading this whilst a member of a centre for the study of 'management learning' formed some 10 years before. It is, of course, common practice to state an area is unresearched. There is generally more in a Gabbyesce one-liner than this article. I have learned much more from you and others in here than this kind of pretended science could ever offer. One should not, old chap, merely offer up the worst the opposition can muster! I rather liked the Alan Wallace stuff - what I felt I wanted was a joint commentary on what this kind of reasoning does for us - though preferably one that doesn't swamp my emails as the Witters one I looked at recently after its introduction here. I was moved - partly in the relief of 'listening' to another doing some kind of justice to argument in principle accessible to us all. It was Gabby who pointed me to an article by Mary Midgely available in a list I posted as available free at Philosophy Now - this ends by saying the 'least worst' position is 'listening' to a kind of inner committee rather than one-dimensional Rationality (perhaps a strange way to come to a 'first reading'!) - one can glean a little from almost anything, including this article. A real scientific approach should not neglect experience in a very general sense, even if its purpose is to expose problems in that experience or expose it as just plain wrong. I suspect there is a great deal of scientific evidence for a religious position open to evidence - one does not have to fall for scientism in adopting this, or fall for tradition, revelation, or deny 'messages' we can experience in a religious sense - questioning remains (as Wallace points out very well).
Apparently some way from anything we might discuss on this, is the Vanessa George case in the UK. This woman, now known to be a very serious child abuser, appeared happy and caring to all around her for over ten years. Today she is being sentence for abuse so horrible the news is shying away from telling us what it was. Parents with kids at the nursery at which she worked now live not knowing whether their children have been abused. We can be very wrong in our assessments of people, science, religion and so on. This should not stop us trying to find better positions and some way to incorporate all evidence in what we can do in introspection and its translation in mutual understanding. There is much worse than scientific pedantry to cope with! On 1 Oct, 07:22, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > ...for those interested in Scientism. > > http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.00... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
