Carrol Cox wrote:
Mike Ballard wrote:
"...without the making of theories, I am convinced there would be
no observation." Charles Darwin, 1860
http://www.iww.org.au/
Darwin was probably not even close to be first in this perception, but
considering his "empiricist" credentials, this might be considered the
most powerful condemnation ever of trying to reach 'truth' by
generalizing empirical data.
There's a continental philosophical tradition, the "phenomenological"
tradition originated by Edmund Husserl, that disputes the idea that
all experience is necessarily theory-laden, an idea having absurd
epistemological implications.
As I've pointed out before, there's a reading of Marx,
"phenomenological Marxism", that links him to this tradition. See,
for example, Karel Kosik's Dialectics of the Concrete and Enzo Paci's
Function of the Sciences and the Meaning of Man.
Ted
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