Krimel,
If you have a spare moment, you might want to listen to a few of
these programs:
"If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it?
Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of
knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject
to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This
situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians,
sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have
begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of
science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley
talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study."
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html
Marsha
At 11:49 AM 4/12/2009, you wrote:
Marsha
What is it with Darwin's theory? Seems to me the theory of evolution
becomes more static and mechanistic every decade. There's
evolutionary biology, evolutionary chemistry, evolutionary
epistemology, evolutionary psychology, my goodness there is even a
evolutionary astrology, etc., etc., etc,... It is just a static
pattern of value, yes?
[Krimel]
First of all the explosion of new applications of evolutionary theory that
you cite is clear evidence of the dynamic quality of the theory. It is
static patterns that often give rise to ever more interesting examples of
dynamic quality. For example language is entirely composed of static pattern
and yet out of it grow that infinite generativity of speech and writing. It
is in fact the presence of
static patterns that give rise to ever more astounding examples of dynamic
quality.
Sorry when I leave the touchpad on the laptop on strange errors often ensue.
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