Re:Concerning Stephen Hawking’s Claim That Philosophy Is De...
by fish55 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:57PM
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I'm not sure about that. I was very persuaded by this essay, which makes exactly this distinction:
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-I...
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Re:Concerning Stephen Hawking’s Claim That Philosophy Is De...
by jmcmichael on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:42PM
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I don't think Latour's criticism of social theory applies to the causal closure of physics, or science's claimed exclusivity to describe fundamental ontologies; it criticizes the approaches of 20th century post-modernist critique.
Are you familiar with his follow-up, 'Reassembling the Social'? I'm not, but in reading a summary it seems to propose better methods for comparing ontologies and systems.
Re:Concerning Stephen Hawking’s Claim That Philosophy Is De...
by fish55 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:18PM
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It's been a long time since I read that. After posting the link, I reread it, and it seems I misinterpreted it somewhere along the way. I thought that it develops an opposition between "matters of fact" and "matters of concern", and that it breaks along the same lines of the discussion here, but it doesn't.