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Re: Anthropology of Science
Jay Kotliar (ARKYJAY@AOL.COM)
Wed, 4 Oct 1995 08:59:09 -0400
Brian Michael Howell writes:What postmodernity offers is the notion that
science is not a
"cosmological category". "Science" is every bit as subject its social
context as art and religion.
I agree that sciece is subject to social context, that is why it is a
cosmological category-it represents a particular world view and parameters
for the interpretation of natural phenomena. That critique actually predates
postmodernism and goes back to the sophists.
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