[lbo-talk] Going After Scientism Through Science Fiction

[ravi]

On 13 Jun, 2007, at 10:56 AM, cgrimes at rawbw.COM wrote:
>
> ``...I am going to begin offering an idea of what scientism is by
> starting with the following: Scientism is like science, but is
> corrupted by dogmatic attitudes and practices that remove many if not
> all critical qualifications that go into defining science as a way of
> constructing aspects of our knowledge about the external world that
> are dynamic, local, at times intuitive, particular, open, subjective,
> social...''  .d. quoting Walker
>
> -------
>
> Just some random thoughts on this...
>
> I don't know about using the word scientism. It currently seems to  
> have
> several meanings and connotations. Ravi had one meaning in mind, but
> I've forgotten what it was---I think something about the arrogance of
> the science and tech crew.

No, that's not really the primary meaning I have attributed to the  
thing. The archives have my thoughts including the definitions I  
endorse, and I will leave it mostly at that, for now.

	--ravi