Comment Blah, Blah, Blah (Score 1) 600
Scientists and engineers -- god bless 'em -- tend to be incredulous whenever they discover some branch of education that they do not understand, where the language and mode of thinking does not form clear and distinct ideas, and which (most important) does not belong to an established field of science, pure or applied. They wonder -- hey, this is not science! How come it makes no sense to me? Science is the highest form of knowledge! How can this be so?!? They seem to be particularly miffed when they read some scholar in the humanities who does not seem to agree that All Human Behavior Can be Reduced to Genetics, or that All Culture can be Reduced to Material Conditions.
Give me a break. They ought to spend some time trying to understand the liberal arts and the goals of humanistic research. I supposed this fellow would mock Paul Ricouer's work on narrative and the self. His loss.
The best text I have found to explain the humanities to scientists who don't get it is Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos. And if you want some good parody natural scientists, read Emily Martin. Yes, scientists are human beings too, and they too are stuck with mataphors and the foibles of language in their encounters with the world.
Give me a break. They ought to spend some time trying to understand the liberal arts and the goals of humanistic research. I supposed this fellow would mock Paul Ricouer's work on narrative and the self. His loss.
The best text I have found to explain the humanities to scientists who don't get it is Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos. And if you want some good parody natural scientists, read Emily Martin. Yes, scientists are human beings too, and they too are stuck with mataphors and the foibles of language in their encounters with the world.
