tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post7929340219454354939..comments2024-03-28T12:50:25.792-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: SOKAL, FISH, SCIENCE, AND BLUE HERONSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-49487105389208463672013-07-28T10:59:46.594-04:002013-07-28T10:59:46.594-04:00Perhaps worth noting, as Kant does in the B editio...Perhaps worth noting, as Kant does in the B edition Preface to the 1st Critique, is the emergence of the experimental method in empirical science. An experiment involves more that mere observation, even via the instruments of enhancement--it involves "cooking the books", as Whitehead reportedly put it, in which what is observed has already been modified by human intervention. That intervention renders the observation of 'nature in itself' impossible, and is one channel of the introduction of ideology into the process.Don Schneierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751277350617015241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24531371602457768012013-07-27T22:18:14.377-04:002013-07-27T22:18:14.377-04:00Prof. Wolff,
I've never seen that subject exp...Prof. Wolff,<br /><br />I've never seen that subject expounded in such brief and clear manner. Frankly, even I understood everything. Many thanks.<br /><br />May God (or genes) give you many more long walks. Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-90256181148919152482013-07-27T15:46:18.490-04:002013-07-27T15:46:18.490-04:00If you have a little bit of ash left over, pass it...If you have a little bit of ash left over, pass it to me so that I can atone for not recognizing the name of a Nobel Laueate in literature.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-36364430777990013632013-07-27T15:22:43.722-04:002013-07-27T15:22:43.722-04:00I am the one who mistakenly claimed that Fish was ...I am the one who mistakenly claimed that Fish was Editor of Social Text at the time of the Sokal affaire, while in reality he was only in charge of Duke Univ. Press and later published a passionate defense of the editorial decision.<br /><br />Having now been shown the error of my ways I proceed to vover my head with ashes in a proper auto-da-fé.imcdpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00768319404907400375noreply@blogger.com