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Refs for Postmodernism and science (Long)
Jay Kotliar (ARKYJAY@AOL.COM)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 08:19:43 -0400
B.M. Howell writes Perhaps, as Paul
Feyerabend wrote, Galileo was "wrong" and the church was "right".
I know this remark was made flippantly, rather than seriously. but I think it
can be used to illustrate an important point. Galileo was only wrong if you
think that tyrannical bodies should censor intellectual inquiry because they
fear it will imperil their authority. The church based on their scientific
advisors believed Gallileo was right about the movement of the heavenly
bodies, they were just not ready to admit it to the general public. No
matter how much the postmodernists crow about constructed knowledge I stand
with Gallileo and mutter under my breath-it still moves. (Many of
postmodernisms critique of positivism are well taken-it is a mistake to
equate "positivism" with science. I was raised in a scientific oriented
household and Popper rather than positivists was the inspiration.
These may serve as interesting references on the subject of science, reason
and constructed knowlewdge. I have tried to give a range of different
opinions, but the list is far from comprehensive.
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Bloom, Alan
1987 The Closing of the American Mind, Simon and Schuster, New York.
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1978 Moral Reasoning: A Psychological-Philosophical Integration,
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
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1977 Perception, Theory and Commitment: The New Philosophy of Science,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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1989 The Rational and the Social, Routledge Press, New York.
De Gre, Gerard
1985 The Social Compulsions of Ideas, Towards a Sociological Analysis of
Knowledge, ed. Cyril H. Levitt, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ.
Dewey, John
1971 Experience and Nature, Second Edition, The Paul Carus Lectures Series
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1987 "Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique", Current Anthropology
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1968 Anthropology and Ethics: The Quest For Moral Understanding, Revised
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1990 Value and Justification: The Foundations of Liberal Theory, Cambridge
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California.
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1969 Value Theory and the Behavioral Sciences, Publication Number 740
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1991 "Archaeology and the Accumulation of Knowledge", Processual and
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by Robert Preucel, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern
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1991 "Postprocessual Archaeology and the Current Debate", Processual and
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1977 Knowledge and Ignorance in Economics, University of Chicago Press,
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1977 The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition, edited by John
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Kuhn, Thomas
1970 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edition, University of
Chicago Press, Chicago.
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1984 Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific
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1991 "Materialist Theory and the Formation of Questions in Archaeology",
Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the
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1938 The Philosophy of the Act, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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1947 A Digest of Purposive Values, University of California Press, Berkeley.
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1954 Realms of Value, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
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1979 Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
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1991 "The Philosophy of Archaeology", Processual and Postprocessual
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Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional
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1988 "The Structure of Archaeological Theory", American Antiquity 53
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Znaniecki, Florian
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