Re: MD The SOL fallacy was the intelligence fallacy (was Rhetoric)

From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 17:04:13 BST

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    > [Case]
    > The social sciences are very new. All of them have been around for little
    > more than a century. They are by analogy in the alchemy, astrology stages
    > of
    > their development. Nevertheless, they could provide a great deal of
    > insight
    > into the matters discussed in these forums but people here seem happier to
    > wander in circles at the cul de sac of philosophy and mysticism. DM: Take
    > a look at the philospher of sociology Roy Bhaskar, he sounds
    > a lot like Pirsig, he talks of levels, re-thinking causality, freedom,
    > indeterminacy, emergence and jumping over the S-O divide.

    [Case]
    Thanks for the tip. My reading list is pretty booked at the moment. But
    since this is your second recommendation I might as well fill you in. At the
    moment I am finishing the last installment Stephen King's Dark Tower series
    a task some 20 years in the offing. I was thinking of taking up Harry Potter
    since it doesn't look like I would have to wait as long for a conclusion.
    Before the Dark Tower I read a collection of Anton Scalia's supreme court
    decisions to try to unravel the notion of "strict constructionism" earilier
    I read Malcom McDonald's The Tipping Point, two by Michael Moore, Karen
    Armstrong's Battle for God, The Meaning of Jesus, which was a dialog between
    two members of the Jesus Seminar, a slender volume entitled On Bullshit, and
    Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture. Over at least the past five years I have
    keep a pace of about 20 to 30 books a year. About 75% trashy fiction and 25%
    nonfiction; usually something to do with those subjects forbidden in polite
    conversation: politics, religion or science. On deck I have Ruth Benedict's
    Patterns of Culture, Lila, since I seem to have misread it the first five
    times, ZMM since I have only misunderstood it about twice and your
    recommendation of the Disorder of Things if I can find it. I will check out
    Bhaskar and that should about round out the year for me.

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