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Sunday, 13 February 2011

The Empirical Mind



Formal Hall: a place where misunderstandings between disciplines get cleared up... or not.
Posted by Clémentine Beauvais at 01:00
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16 comments:

  1. Luke Surl13 February 2011 at 11:00

    Never really understood where arts funding comes from really. Love the Milton in the background by the way!

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  2. Clémentine Beauvais13 February 2011 at 11:02

    I like to hypothesise that it comes from eccentric philanthropists whose wives cheated on them with mathematicians, like the mythical Alfred Nobel.

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  3. Mathilde13 February 2011 at 11:28

    Well, thank Sir Humphrey for the grants and funding : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvNw0P5ZMbA&feature=related

    ;)

    Love Milton too!

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  4. Mathilde13 February 2011 at 11:33

    And this one too, which countains this wonderful truth : "Subsidy is for art... for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want. It is for what the people don't want but ought to have."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO_vwvNK4Ic&feature=related

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  5. Clémentine Beauvais13 February 2011 at 11:40

    ooh can't wait to watch these. But first I must finish my essay :(

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  6. Mathilde13 February 2011 at 11:44

    Come on... it is only five minutes... Give in the temptation... come on, eat the apple, Clémentine (this joke just made my day).

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  7. Unknown13 February 2011 at 12:00

    What subject is your scientist doing? Fieldwork and coding? Surely some kind of superscience! Or a really tedious branch of geophysics...

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  8. Clémentine Beauvais13 February 2011 at 12:13

    nope, she's a social scientist... probably doing ethnographic research or semi-structured interviews or something

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  9. Mathilde13 February 2011 at 12:19

    Social sciences... the ultimate oxymoron. Et quand je dis moron, je pèse mes mots.

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  10. Clémentine Beauvais13 February 2011 at 12:26

    can you tell I'm currently writing an essay on research methods

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  11. Mathilde13 February 2011 at 12:34

    ;)
    Sorry, I'm a little bitchy today - I'm pissed off by the article I'm writing (for GA).

    Anyway, social sciences are well and good, but in no way are they sciences. Studies fits better. C'est la même chose en français : pour moi, une science humaine = médecine, pas la psychologie ou la sociologie.

    Poor Jenny, BTW. It would be pretty funny to include field work in philosophy : "35% of the panel agreed with the kantian option, 25% with the aristotelian answer, 25% had no opinion, and 15% thought the answer was yellow."

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  12. Clémentine Beauvais13 February 2011 at 12:40

    ha sorry to make you suffer :D

    There's definitely a branch of modern philosophy that does empirical research by asking people to solve ethical dilemmas. But I can't remember what it's called.

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  13. Mathilde13 February 2011 at 12:43

    Democracy?

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  14. Anonymous13 February 2011 at 13:36

    @Andrew Meteorology

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  15. Anonymous13 February 2011 at 15:12

    in ethnography, you don't do statistics and you don't really code the data. you just take notes and then write books about them :) (we're not functionalists anymore)

    but what she says makes me think of archaeology, in which we do fieldwork, use 'data' and can actually code it. We use it statistically to see patterns in the archaeological record and deduce their meaning. and then we can also write about phenomenology if we feel like it ^^


    Agathe, the Arch and Anth student ^^

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  16. Jonathan Auxier13 February 2011 at 19:43

    Found this site through your comment on Phil Nel's blog. "What did you THINK of today" is sort of brilliant. I remember being in grad school (for playwriting) and rooming with a guy who was finishing medical school ... conversations like that were regular occurrences.

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