[MD] What is SOM?

[David M]

Hi Krim

I understand your concern with overly romantic attacks on science
and agree we should keep sight of sciences many benefits. But
there is a case against scientism and reductionism and essentialism
to be made against some approachs to science that I think inprove
our understanding of science. I also think there is a non supernatural
case against a type of naturalism, see this for explanation:

http://www.philosophers.co.uk/cafe/phil_may2003.htm

I also agree that the aim of MOQ is to recontextualise the modern
world and offer a better context for understanding life, science and
society than SOM does. For me, we need to have an understanding of
how we base our knowledge on lived experience. Lived experience is
our context, this is a context of qualities, values, change, patterns, and
the potential for change and action. Given experience as it is and
understood (described) in terms like these we can go on to understand
how we can have scientific, personal, emotional, sexual, aesthetic, social, 
political, etc forms of
knowledge. Experience is a larger category that contains 'objects' of 
knowledge that exceed
those that science wants to, or can, address.

DM