[lbo-talk] Re: Scientistism

[ravi]

At around 10/10/06 8:57 am, Andy F wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> http://www.slate.com/id/2150974/fr/rss/
>

I posted on this matter under a separate heading a few days ago.


> Collins is a sociologist.
> Collins understands physics.
> Therefore, all sociologists understand physics.

I think you may be missing some history. IIRC Collins is considered one
of the bad STS types (perhaps not as bad as Aronowitz ;-)). Someone
quoted Hacking a while ago. Hacking uses Collins as such an example in
his book (again IIRC).

	--ravi