See Chap. 6, "Nature" of my book "Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture," for a dissection of the cultural, ideological,...
Norman Levitt
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Jun 1, 2001 1:12 pm
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Newtonian Physics-TRUE, FALSE, OR DOES IT MATTER? If my interpretation is correct, atomic particles in vacuum at opposite ends of a quantum field react...
Stephen Miles Sacks, ...
Editor@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:29 pm
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RE: Allan's subjective qua physical (Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:24 PM) (Stephen -- is this what you had in mind concerning the subject title?) << Response to...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
Frederick.Zaman@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:38 pm
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... The problems posed by quantum entanglement--famously exemplified by he Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen phenomena, as made even more strinking by Bell--are deep....
Norman Levitt
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Jun 1, 2001 3:57 pm
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... From: "Loretta Ratkus" <oxfordtrade@...> ... the ... capital. ... includes ... Trade ... Law ... former ... an ... global ... on-site ... at ... in...
Stephen Miles Sacks, ...
Editor@...
Jun 1, 2001 4:39 pm
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Thanks for your very interesting contribution! Angele ... From: "Norman Levitt" <njlevitt@...> To: <Scipolicy-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 01,...
angele.marietti
angele.marietti@...
Jun 1, 2001 4:58 pm
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... What counts in the end is how the mathematics speaks, not the philosophical, ideological, or social motivations of its inventors. (A similar point could be...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
Frederick.Zaman@...
Jun 1, 2001 5:10 pm
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Just to interject a very basic point from the peanut gallery; I am given to understand that relatively few of the processes involved in biological systems are...
Jim Eighmey
jeighmey@...
Jun 1, 2001 5:22 pm
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Fred, You write that you do not want "get sidetracked into conventional philosophical discourse". I am really not sure there is such a thing as "conventional"...
Derek Allan
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Jun 2, 2001 3:30 am
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Fred, Please, let me analyse your reply step by step. My postulate is that before to be able to describe your perception of a perfect non-mechanistic world,...
angele.marietti
angele.marietti@...
Jun 2, 2001 6:15 am
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I welcome Sacks' open-mindedness in seeing the potential policy relevance of alternative interpretations of scientific theories. I could not agree more. My own...
Prof S Fuller
s.w.fuller@...
Jun 2, 2001 10:04 am
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... On the other hand, according to Stuart Clark, author of "Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe," the Royal Society was big...
Gabriel Stolzenberg
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Jun 2, 2001 3:55 pm
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In a message dated 6/2/01 6:05:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... So are we all, Steve. So have we been, at least since about 1650. Greetings, PRG [Non-text...
prghome@...
Jun 2, 2001 8:53 pm
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... We've been listening to Fred since 1650? It may seem that way... More seriously, but only slightly, I, for one, have no idea what Steve's sentence means....
Gabriel Stolzenberg
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Jun 2, 2001 9:34 pm
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I am absolutely thrilled with the debates. I enjoy reading the postings and they surely give me food for thought. So why should we have all the fun? What do...
Stephen Miles Sacks, ...
Editor@...
Jun 2, 2001 10:22 pm
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... Dorothy...
Dorothy Tennov
tennov@...
Jun 3, 2001 4:58 am
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Of course, Gabriel is right that many (perhaps most) members of the early Royal Society - certainly Boyle and Newton - pursued the spiritualist implications of...
Prof S Fuller
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Jun 3, 2001 1:18 pm
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... [snip] ... Can the question be asked too often: Just how massively consequential was Galileo's combination of vain folly (casting his friend the pope as a...
Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
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Jun 3, 2001 5:09 pm
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It appears that the French, or at least the Parisians, are still a few years ahead of everybody else in sociology of science, or at least ahead stylewize. The...
prghome@...
Jun 3, 2001 8:34 pm
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It seems that some participants in this debate on Newtonian mechanics may be unaware of what it really is about. As it turns out, none of Fuller's criticisms...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
Frederick.Zaman@...
Jun 4, 2001 1:16 pm
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This method of disseminating the debates is a very good idea. I support it 100 percent. ... From: Stephen Miles Sacks, Ph.D. [mailto:Editor@...] ...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
Frederick.Zaman@...
Jun 4, 2001 1:17 pm
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In a message dated 6/4/01 9:18:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... If Zaman wants his comments on "immanent" accelerative forces to be discussed seriously, by the...
prghome@...
Jun 4, 2001 9:10 pm
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The constant badgering clearly is coming from Gross (and Levitt). The issues actually are quite simple, but they make every effort to make it appear to be the...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
Frederick.Zaman@...
Jun 4, 2001 10:09 pm
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Response to Fred Zaman's: "It should be obvious that when biological and social forces always originate within, and interact with the environment through the...
Allan, Derek
Derek.Allan@...
Jun 5, 2001 12:09 am
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Prof S Fuller’s knowledge claim - TRUE, FALSE, OR DOES IT MATTER? On the Subject: Re: [Scipolicy-L] Newtonian Physics-TRUE, FALSE, OR DOES IT MATTER? on...
theotheocharis@...
Jun 5, 2001 1:20 am
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One of the goals of the Scipolicy discussion group is to encourage diverse views and professional criticisms and dialogues. Therein, open communications are...
Stephen Miles Sacks, ...
Editor@...
Jun 5, 2001 2:14 am
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Yes, I am glad this is being mentioned again. Also, it seems that if one is not identifying themselves (or are we suppose to know what PRG stands for?) there...
jemiller
jemisis@...
Jun 5, 2001 2:45 am
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... claims are disguised ideologies. It is also about showing how knowledge claims only have force in certain social settings.>> ... I think Steve could do it...
Gabriel Stolzenberg
gstolzen@...
Jun 5, 2001 2:52 am
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... Dear Paul, Hear, hear! I don't know how "nice" I am, but I am totally befuddled by Zaman's posts whereas yours and most others on this list are always...
Dorothy Tennov
tennov@...
Jun 5, 2001 12:15 pm
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A discussion of the biological and social aspects of immanent forces will come soon enough, in the previously referenced summary on the "Newtonian Physics of...
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