[MD] What is SOM?

[David M]

Hi Krim

Here's some more home work on this anti-naturalism:

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/6/5/7/5/pages265752/p265752-1.php

DM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David M" <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] What is SOM?


> 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
>
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