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Re: The Science problem
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:00:53 -0400
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RE Science & Politics

The unity of science was once a battle cry, but today it is the fashion to emphasize the disunities among the sciences. I am right up there on the bandwagon (Hacking 1991). Some suggest that there is nothing in general to be said about science unless it be the message of Latour (1987) that everything in the world and our knowledge of it is to be understood on the model of politics, or maybe, is politics. 

Our preserved theories and the world fit together so snugly less because we have found out how the world is than because we have tailored each to the other. 

from: The Self-Vindication of the Laboratory Sciences, Ian Hacking.

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