Anthropology (catch all)

[selil]

I have an interesting relationship with academia. I'm a faculty member at my institution and a PhD student at another. There seems to be this boundary between technology and science and as I was discussing some of the issues we've been discussing in several threads on SWC my PhD adviser said "then create a course and reading list for us...." oops. My job this summer when I'm normally drinking Corona and trying to determine if the lawn will mow itself is instead to consider the philosophy of science. Egads.

Thanks Marct

[marct]

Hi Selil,

I have an interesting relationship with academia. I'm a faculty member at my institution and a PhD student at another. There seems to be this boundary between technology and science and as I was discussing some of the issues we've been discussing in several threads on SWC my PhD adviser said "then create a course and reading list for us...." oops. My job this summer when I'm normally drinking Corona and trying to determine if the lawn will mow itself is instead to consider the philosophy of science. Egads.

Thanks Marct

You're welcome !

Marc

[120mm]

I have an interesting relationship with academia. I'm a faculty member at my institution and a PhD student at another. There seems to be this boundary between technology and science and as I was discussing some of the issues we've been discussing in several threads on SWC my PhD adviser said "then create a course and reading list for us...." oops. My job this summer when I'm normally drinking Corona and trying to determine if the lawn will mow itself is instead to consider the philosophy of science. Egads.

Thanks Marct

I have years of study before I can speak authoritatively on the philosophy of science, or where that mythical boundary between technology and science lies (And I doubt I will know any more then, than when I started out), but I suspect that "technology" is the "works" portion of the "faith-based" scientific "church".

Technology is Science's Book of James, if you will.

[Stevely]

Technology is Science's Book of James, if you will.

Can I steal that from you? Brilliant.

[120mm]

Can I steal that from you? Brilliant.

Sure! You are welcome to any "Epistle of Straw" you can use!

[SteveMetz]

I'm reading a draft essay on asymmetric conflict by Harvard's Ivan Arreguin-Toft and came across this sentence which seems germane to this thread: "...a great deal of our collective energies are absorbed by questions of who among us should be more hired, published, and promoted based, to paraphrase the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., not on the content of our research, but on the color of our research methods." I likes that!

[marct]

Hi 120,

I have years of study before I can speak authoritatively on the philosophy of science, or where that mythical boundary between technology and science lies (And I doubt I will know any more then, than when I started out), but I suspect that "technology" is the "works" portion of the "faith-based" scientific "church".

Technology is Science's Book of James, if you will.

Love it! BTW, Bronislaw Mailinowski, Magic, Science and Religion has pretty much made the same argument.

Marc