[Interpretationandmethods] Article of interest

[Patrick Jackson]

Personally I like "dualist" as a descriptor of the underlying  
metaphysics of that verificationist worldview; see attached.

Jeremy puts his finger on something important here, I think, something  
that would seem to call for a more sustained reflexive investigation  
of various academic and non-academic knowledge-practices and the kinds  
of conceptual vocabularies that underpin them. But I don't think  
that's what the author of the original piece that Dvora sent has in  
mind :-)

On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:

> I'm not sure that verification is actually the issue.  I think  
> verification is actually a trap that leads to a certain kind of  
> science.  Once it is verifiable, then it is quantifiable, and then  
> it will quickly shift from interpretavist to positivist models. I  
> think if there is a a crisis it lies close to the question of  
> legitimation and specifically it exists in the problem not of  
> verification but of translation.  It is an issue of one study that  
> purports to mean something not being able to be translated into  
> meaningful categories in another study of the same thing.  This is a  
> problem of translation and specifically of the mappings of  
> knowledge.  That is the construction of a legitimation crisis  that  
> we have where there is the huge sphere of meaning, but those  
> meanings no longer, as a whole, support the system of reproduction  
> of those meanings.
>
> but perhaps I'm just coming at this from a different perspective as  
> i've been writing a bit too much on translation in transdisciplinary  
> research teams of late.
>
> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu 
> )
>
> Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
> think. --Byron
>
>
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