From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 22:29:04 BST
Hello David,
Thanks for the laugh at the end...
given the mutual confusion between
ground floor / first floor
first floor / second floor
basement / first floor
in UK vs US it is appropriate as well...
thanks--mel
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morey" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: MD On Faith+understanding (Rorty/Bhaskar)
> Hi all
>
> I think these points from ML are good. I would say that they relate
> to what the philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar has pointed out.
> He has drawn our attention to the fact that when we learn about
> a new theory in science we are confronted with a set of texts and
> formulae that we have to interpret with all the difficulties that
> post-modernists
> and people like Rorty have drawn our attention to. However, we clearly
> are capable of making this leap into a common interpretation of the new
> theory. Bhaskar suggests that the individual each time has to discover the
> same
> theory for themselves. Of course, they may not have understood it and have
> made the leap into a new thoery of their own that is not the same as the
> original
> authors. The point in teaching is to try to reach the same
> interpretation/understanding of
> the theory. Often the teacher will be able to tell the student that they
> have the wrong interpretation
> from the generally accepted one and will try to guide them towards making
a
> new leap until
> if they are lucky they get it. This seems to be the dynamic component
> relating to the individual
> with respect to attaining what we otherwise may look on as
common/universal
> structures
> of meaning. Bhaskar also points out the realist assumption that there is
an
> undivided/
> uninterpreted real world to which we relate our interpretations and will
> either fit or
> resist our interpretations. As he says, we do not decide to interepret the
> second floor
> window as a better exit than the ground floor door. Rorty will call this
> trivial, Bhaskar
> suggests Rorty takes the window then.
>
> regards
> David Morey
>
>
>
>
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