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talkpoliticsGiven that this is "Science and Technology" month, I thought I'd share this amazingly awesome anecdote (see link) about Thomas Kuhn (one of the most important philosophers of science in recent history) and Errol Morris, his erstwhile graduate student. It's a wonderful story illuminating (a) the politics of graduate school and (b) a form of argument (The Ashtray Argument) that only my lack of physical proximity has prevented me from using with some of my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
talk_politics interlocutors, although I don't see it here, and (c) even an interesting question about Kuhn's philosophy. I suppose that this incident provides important evidence for those inclined to see heavy Wittgensteinian influences on Kuhn.
(Also, Kuhn smoked 6 or 7 packs of cigarettes/day, crazy!!)
ETA (permod request): This is an anecdote about Thomas Kuhn throwing an ashtray at one of his graduate students when the graduate student asks a question about the fundamentals of Kuhn's phil. of sci.
talk_politics interlocutors, although I don't see it here, and (c) even an interesting question about Kuhn's philosophy. I suppose that this incident provides important evidence for those inclined to see heavy Wittgensteinian influences on Kuhn. (Also, Kuhn smoked 6 or 7 packs of cigarettes/day, crazy!!)
ETA (per
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Date: 9/3/11 22:35 (UTC)See? You're assuming this means that I think the binary opposite, when I am not saying that, because we do have negotiation and evidence.
The above statement is not a disagreement with one position, it is a position-insultinsultinsult
No its not.
Oh I'm quite clear about the radical and non-middle stance you currently have espoused.
At least you're quite sure of your assumption you mean.
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Date: 9/3/11 22:40 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/3/11 22:49 (UTC)You can go on telling me what my position is and you can even be very sure of it too, I'm going to go ------> over there.