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

From: David M (davidint@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 19:49:00 BST

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    funny thing is the Benedict book is sitting next to me
    at this moment.You may find Bhaskar a bit hard going.

    DM

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    From: "Case" <Case@iSpots.com>
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    Subject: Re: MD The SOL fallacy was the intelligence fallacy (was Rhetoric)

    >> [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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