tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post8041070429257837769..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: The Vienna Circle on interdisciplinary scienceDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-57394201742523970742009-09-20T08:20:56.603-04:002009-09-20T08:20:56.603-04:00"Some of these observations make me think tha..."Some of these observations make me think that it might be worth rethinking the import of the Vienna Circle. We're inclined to caricature the Vienna Circle as reductionist, positivist, and hyper-empiricist"<br /><br />-- I like to agree. Anti-reductionism, not even having an eye for reducibility (Turner, 196?), has lead to the countermovements of postmodernism and postmaterialism. It is why the Frankfurters are in the White House now, even though the Iron Curtain fell (did it really?). I believe that knowing must be (deleted 'should be' what I typed first) a reducible orientation upon sensing, while sensing is the material basis for knowing.Ron de Weijzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05135626951792092605noreply@blogger.com