Re: [OPE-L] Derrida's ghosts

From: Ian Wright (wrighti@ACM.ORG)
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 23:57:51 EST 

Hi Rakesh

Will get around to trying to address your points. But first:

> >They don't understand the unique features of scientific
> >labour. So the concrete labour of astrology is not much different from
> >the concrete labour of an astronomer.
>
>
> Caricature!  But perhaps the myth/science distinction is not always
> so clear. Darwin for example.

Not so long ago, Paris' Sorbonne University passed a doctoral
dissertation, in sociology, that employed postmodern ideas to argue
for the validity of astrology.

-Ian.

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