>Charles thanks for the >Vygotsky link as I have >wanted to read a lot more
>of him than I have and >seem to have overlooked >him at the archive
(usually >going there to look up >something specific).
Greg, Check out the way Comrade Lenin (love his style) deals not only with idealist reactionaries but 'scientistic' positivists as well:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/06.htm
See also Ilyenkov:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/works/positive/index.htm
While I don't think philosophy will ever tell us what is and what is not a science, it's interesting to see the problem is not a new one and that there are far more perspectives than those of either anglo-analytic philosophy of science or French post-structuralism.
Charles Jannuzi