Re: Re: RE: Western Rationality

2002-10-13 Thread joanna bujes
At 03:47 AM 10/12/2002 +, you wrote: The sheer complexity of modern technologies requires that RD be a team effort; no one individual acting alone can supply the expertise needed to advance the state of the art. If you have a team effort, you need administrators to coordinate efforts,

RE: Re: RE: Western Rationality

2002-10-12 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31287] Re: RE: Western Rationality I wrote: I don't understand why scientific (consistent logical empirical) thinking _requires_ division of labor, bureaucratization, and the rest. Please explain. Carl: The sheer complexity of modern technologies requires that RD be a team

Re: RE: Re: RE: Western Rationality

2002-10-12 Thread Ian Murray
RE: [PEN-L:31287] Re: RE: Western Rationality - Original Message - From: Devine, James Relationships of ownership They whisper in the wings To those condemned to act accordingly And wait for succeeding kings And I try to harmonize with songs The lonesome sparrow sings There are

Re: RE: Re: RE: Western Rationality

2002-10-12 Thread Carl Remick
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carl: I think enlightenment comes from within, not from any evidence the social sciences can produce. But that's just me channeling R. W. Emerson again. if enlightenment comes only from within, then there's no way to convince anyone else of the validity of

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-10 Thread Carl Remick
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joanna writes: A critique of the development of science under capitalism would take much more than an email. Suffice it to say that what we refer to as SCIENCE today is a specific historical form suffering from specific historical deformations. I leave it

Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-10 Thread joanna bujes
At 05:12 PM 10/10/2002 +, you wrote: Again, I believe it's the nature of science itself -- not just the corruptive effects of capitalism -- that so often causes technology to have a destructive, dehumanizing impact on society. The ever increasing specialization of scientific knowledge

Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread Carl Remick
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ian: Indeed, lots of the problems of modernity are the uses to which logic, scientific thinking etc. have been put and those problems are not reducible to the problems created by capitalism. Carl: Yes, I think the basis of many of modern society's

RE: RE: RE: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: "Western Rationality" yeah, I've been stupid in many ways. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message-From: Eric Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:17 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

Re: Re: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread joanna bujes
At 10:56 AM 10/09/2002 -0400, you wrote: Unfortunately critical thinking toward bourgeois science (and there *is* such a thing has been associated with postmodernist relativism, Not really. There is the work of Feyerabend and a tremendous amount of ground breaking by the phenomenlogists and by

Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread joanna bujes
At 02:41 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote: That's the horror of it all. As Huxley suggested in Brave New World, there doesn't seem to be any choice between the dehumanization of science and reversion to simple savagery. As I said, I don't have any answer to this. Oh, that's just silly. We have

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread Carl Remick
From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:41 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote: That's the horror of it all. As Huxley suggested in Brave New World, there doesn't seem to be any choice between the dehumanization of science and reversion to simple savagery. As I said, I don't have any answer to

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread joanna bujes
At 06:01 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote: From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:41 PM 10/09/2002 +, you wrote: That's the horror of it all. As Huxley suggested in Brave New World, there doesn't seem to be any choice between the dehumanization of science and reversion to simple

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-09 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31184] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality Joanna writes: A critique of the development of science under capitalism would take much more than an email. Suffice it to say that what we refer to as SCIENCE today is a specific historical form suffering from specific

Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-08 Thread Ian Murray
RE: [PEN-L:31107] Re: Western Rationality - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L:31113] RE: Re: Western Rationality Ian: Indeed, lots of the problems of modernity are the uses to which logic, scientific

Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-08 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: How do we conjoin the best science and logic[s] we have in the service of our most mutually enobling and enabling emotions? No platitudes allowed :-) When the question is a platitude the only correct answer is a platitude: VIII. Social life is essentially

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-08 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:11 PM Subject: [PEN-L:31120] Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality Ian Murray wrote: How do we conjoin the best science and logic[s] we have in the service of our

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-08 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: Like I said in advance, the question was a simple one; the notion that it has a simple answer is ridiculous given that you did not answer it Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-08 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it comes up as a legitimate question, it would come up in the course of collective practice, and would be

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Western Rationality

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Come on, cool it everybody. On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:46:03PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: - Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it comes up as a