>Pardon me for being pragmatist about this, but as a sometime
>professional historian and philosopher of science, let me say that I
>think that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Marx was an
>amateur political economist, trained (like me!) as a philosopher and
>lawyer. On a more mundane level, Frederick Crewes, English prof at
>Berkeley, has turned out to be a forminable critic of
>psychoanalysis, although he lacks formal psychological training as
>far as I know.
Both examples, though, are critiques of ideologies -- which economics & psychoanalysis are -- rather than critiques of this or that theory within science. -- Yoshie
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