Why social scientists still need phenomenology

Pierre Bourdieu famously dismissed phenomenology as offering anything useful to a critical science of society – even as he drew heavily upon its themes in his own work. This paper makes a case for why Bourdieu’s judgement should not be the last word on phenomenology. To do so it first reanimates phenomenology’s evocative language and concepts to illustrate their continuing centrality to social scientists’ ambitions to apprehend human engagement with the world. Part II shows how two crucial insights of phenomenology, its discovery of both the natural attitude and of the phenomenological epoche, allow an account of perception properly responsive to its intertwined personal and collective aspects. Contra Bourdieu, the paper’s third section asserts that phenomenology’s substantive socio-cultural analysis simultaneously entails methodological consequences for the social scientist, reversing their suspension of disbelief vis-à-vis the life-worlds of interlocutors and inaugurating the suspension of belief vis-à-vis their own natural attitudes.

Science and Environment Education in the Times of the Anthropocene: Some Reflections from India

In this article, we critically discuss the notion of Anthropocene and its sociopolitical implications for science and environmental education. We do so by laying out how the Anthropocene discourse has shaped the debates around development, environment, and technoscience in postcolonial India. Subsequently, we shift to a conversational format wherein each of us deliberate on our engagements as critical science educators, discussing how, in our respective work, we find the official curriculum promoting the Anthropocene discourse. We then discuss ways by which the Anthropocene discourse constitutes student subjectivities in terms of the nature of their values and aspirations. While engaging in this dialogue, we find ourselves reimagining alternatives.

Karawitan Bali Dalam Perspektif Rasa

This article is written in order to make a deeply understanding about the concept of Balinese traditional music, especially which related with the sense of musical. The aim of this article is to observe some theories which can be used by the composer in creating songs with sense and different variations of musical. With detail observation of many kind elements that has the possibility to influence and take a part in conveying sense. The method used is the compotation of the composer from some decade. With the priority of the critical science of the study as the main problem in the method used, and hopefully the resume can be used in fixing the study tools about Balinese traditional music. By the understanding of the musical sense as one part of the concept in creating the scientific Balinese traditional music, will open the nest generation ways in thinking to act and create something regularly.

Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will revolutionize our ability to measure, understand, and model the basic physical processes that control the structure and dynamics of the Sun and its atmosphere. The first-light DKIST images, released publicly on 29 January 2020, only hint at the extraordinary capabilities that will accompany full commissioning of the five facility instruments. With this Critical Science Plan (CSP) we attempt to anticipate some of what those capabilities will enable, providing a snapshot of some of the scientific pursuits that the DKIST hopes to engage as start-of-operations nears. The work builds on the combined contributions of the DKIST Science Working Group (SWG) and CSP Community members, who generously shared their experiences, plans, knowledge, and dreams. Discussion is primarily focused on those issues to which DKIST will uniquely contribute.

New Science Literacy: Problems and Difficulties of Formation

In a pandemic, science literacy is transformed from a subject of sociological research into a question of the survival of society itself. attitude of various groups and individuals to vaccination shows the real state of science literacy and reveals significant problems in its formation. The article examines the main stages in the development of the concept of natural science (science) literacy and the importance of critical science literacy in a stream containing conflicting scientific information and expert opinions. The article demonstrates the ineffectiveness of formation strategies without specially organized work on the development of initial pre-science ideas in children and adults.

Criticism of Document Hypothesis and the Problem of Pentateuch’s Origin in Rolf Randtorff's Theoretical Developments

В статье2 проблематизируется круг вопросов, затрагивающий область исагогического изучения текстов Пятикнижия, а именно вопросы возникновения и формирования корпуса книг Торы. В этой связи обсуждается ряд исследовательских методов и теорий, разработанных в пределах западноевропейской библейской критической науки. Среди указанных подходов внимание уделяется Документальной гипотезе, критике форм и критике преданий. Предлагается экспликация и анализ критики Документальной гипотезы, осуществлённой немецким библеистом Рольфом Рендторффом в 70-е годы XX в. Обозначаются и обсуждаются альтернативные взгляды на происхождение и формирование Пятикнижия, предложенные Р. Рендторффом, а также те практические разработки учёного, которые наглядно демонстрируют характер его методологии. В статье предлагается попытка обсуждения и осмысления теоретических и практических положений трудов Рендторффа (а вместе с ними и интенций всей западной библейской критической науки) с конфессиональной (православной) позиции. This paper focuses on the range of issues which affect isagogical study of the Pentateuchal texts namely the issues of origin and formation of Torah corpus. In this regard we discuss a range of investigative methods and theories developed within the western biblical criticism among which Documental Hypothesis, form and tradition criticism have assumed a special significance in the past century. The present study explicates and analyzes the Documental Hypothesis’ criticism carried out by german Old Testament scholar Rolf Rendtorff in the 1970s. Alternative views on the origin and formation of the Pentateuch proposed by Randtorff, as well as those practical developments of the scientist, which clearly demonstrate the nature of his methodology, are identified and discussed. The article suggests an attempt to discuss and comprehend the theoretical and practical points of Randtorff’s works - and together with them the intentions of all Western biblical critical science - from the orthodox position.

Knowing as being: Psychology, limits to knowledge, and an ethics of solidarity

Critical epistemological reflection facilitates disciplinary self-reflection, and yet the limitation of this practice needs to examined. This article explores the possibility of a praxis-oriented philosophical foundation for psychology through investigating the limits to knowledge. Integrating insights from critical communicative pragmatist perspectives and Zen Buddhism, this paper outlines what constitutes limits to knowledge and contests the boundary of epistemology, in relation to psychology as a natural science, social science, and critical science. Building upon this deconstruction/reconstruction, Zen Buddhist practice is drawn upon to further illuminate the potential to center psychology through the praxis of knowing as being, which is nontotalizing and always open to uncertainty and fallibility. My key argument is that any notion of epistemology is inadequate when divorced from its intra-connection to being and practice that have inherent ethical and moral relevance. This necessitates deferring philosophizing to a constant and endless practice that upholds an ethics of solidarity.