Re: Externalism/Intrrnalism (Was: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology)

2006-01-26 Thread Ralph Dumain
"A dialectical theory is bound—like Marx’s, largely—to be immanent even if in the end it negates the whole sphere it moves in. This contrasts it with a sociology of knowledge that has been merely brought up from outside and is powerless against philosophy, as philosophy was quick to discover. A

Externalism/Intrrnalism (Was: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology)

2006-01-26 Thread andie nachgeborenen
The concepts are not hard and I can't recall any free-standing discussion of them. "Internalism" is the ide athat scientific change is driven by factors "internal" to science itself -- problems posed by the consistency of theories with observation, the coherence of the theories themselves, whether