BIOL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sokal Affair, Easter Island, Science Wars
8 Oct 2015
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Wednesday, september 16, 2015. Social science uses same methodology as the natural sciences o. Way you gather data and test predictions are based on the same materials as natural science. Humanities emphasize subjective experience. o o. All arts are on the same plane of value. Any hierarchy is purely subjective o o. Scientific method implies a hierarchy o. Some pieces of evidence and theories are less false than the preceding set of theories and empirical evidence. There are just theories that are less false. o. Arguments between humanities and science used different languages. Humanities mistrust the language of science. Wrote a postmodernist paper about nonsense and got published. In his mind proved you can write anything like a postmodernist and sound believable. Privileged epistemological status: truer than other theories, or even, the only truth o o. Totalizing meta narrative (hegemonic): explains everything. Discourse: means we use to express our ideas.
