tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post4755351257870431549..comments2021-09-06T09:01:23.224-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Einstein on the BeachCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-7619279290888983472012-10-10T07:58:46.788-07:002012-10-10T07:58:46.788-07:00Curtis, you&#39;re right about the semi-mystical ...Curtis,<br /><br />you&#39;re right about the semi-mystical quality of a lot of theoretical science out there: they say it&#39;s all unintelligible, or at best an imperfect approximation, except to those who can do the complicated math and physics. I suspect it may actually be the other way around.<br /><br />I&#39;m presently reading Roy Bhaskar&#39;s &quot;Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation&quot;, and it looks as if philosophers of science have taken a turn to &quot;social theory&quot;, combining scientific language with both marxian analysis and good old-fashioned &#39;ontology&#39;. I&#39;ve seen something like this in poetry criticism (as in the case of Levi Bryant of &quot;SR/OOO literary theory&quot;). We may very well be seeing the collapse of scientific method into too many decisively implausible theories.<br /><br />It does seem to me that, whatever the scientific complexity and ingenuity, &#39;infinity&#39; will always come as a troubling limiting condition of thought. Maybe we just caught Einstein on a bad day.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.com