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Re: Serious thoughts about objectivity
Ronald Kephart (rkephart@OSPREY.UNF.EDU)
Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:57:50 -0400
In message <26100520072428@vms2.macc.wisc.edu> Andrew Petto writes:
> [...] the famous work of the French anatomist Broca, who used comparative
> studies of male and female brains to answer the question, "Why are women less
> intelligent than men?" A social construction/composition of observations
> that we fully recognize now, but that was invisible to scientists and scholars
> in his time.
Another example is the recurring furor over "race" and "IQ" both of which are
social constructions/compositions masquerading as scientifically objectifiable
"things" in the real world. Another one of those "big ideas" we should be
working to get across.
Ron Kephart
University of North Florida
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