oy, here's a bitterly ironic vision for all those excited by hybrids as harbingers of social change vis a vis fossil hydrocarbons: Toyota sticks a finger in the US auto industry's eye by proofing and popularizing the technology. This, kiddies, is called subversion.
Then Toyota and the rest of the automotive powers-that-be channel the upswell of interest in hybrids into cars that don't improve on current fuel efficiency standards. Presto: Containment!
"Read some Popper". Nice - zippy even, but ultimately as dissatisfying as the position you are criticizing. You are conflating "science" with "logical positivism". Science, as a philosophical enterprise, is a whole lot messier than one approach, articulated by one philosopher. Read some Kuhn. But by all means, don't stop there, or with any single voice, no matter how popularly visible. And don't try to paint the complex, mutable, DISCURSIVE phenomenon of science and what it is as a pathetic no-brainer. Regardless of your frustration with faith/science confusion. If we're going there, let's settle back in our chairs, breathe deeply, and stop shooting petulantly from the hip.
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oy, here's a bitterly ironic vision for all those excited by hybrids as harbingers of social change vis a vis fossil hydrocarbons: Toyota sticks a finger in the US auto industry's eye by proofing and popularizing the technology. This, kiddies, is called subversion. Then Toyota and the rest of the automotive powers-that-be channel the upswell of interest in hybrids into cars that don't improve on current fuel efficiency standards. Presto: Containment!
"Read some Popper". Nice - zippy even, but ultimately as dissatisfying as the position you are criticizing. You are conflating "science" with "logical positivism". Science, as a philosophical enterprise, is a whole lot messier than one approach, articulated by one philosopher. Read some Kuhn. But by all means, don't stop there, or with any single voice, no matter how popularly visible. And don't try to paint the complex, mutable, DISCURSIVE phenomenon of science and what it is as a pathetic no-brainer. Regardless of your frustration with faith/science confusion. If we're going there, let's settle back in our chairs, breathe deeply, and stop shooting petulantly from the hip.