There's not a rigid boundary between culture & science coz science is part of culture.But we don't always have to look at science culturallyhttps://twitter.com/JCMaas/status/854304208694194176 …
I'm thinking mostly about focus of study. Looking at the way ppl think culturally & the way they think scientifically is very different.
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I'm certainly interested in cognitive mechanisms underlying it but I'm more interested in language & attitudes & ideology affecting culture.
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These can certainly be measured scientifically but this, to me,is less interesting than trying to understand how it all works in ppl's minds
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This is mostly about definitions, but I pers. don't see why that shouldn't be called science. If your ideas are falsifiable, it's science.
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They're not falsifiable & making them so is not the point. One of my professors & her husband is making a database of phrases in manuscripts
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Then people will be able to search and find how commonly things were being talked about. Much more data at our fingertips.
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That's science. I'm more interested in pulling out attitudes and making convincing arguments about their influences & significance.
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eg The thesis I won an award for compared Aemilia Lanyer's model of feminine spiritual wisdom with that attributed to St Monica of Hippo.
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People were interested in the connections & similarities right down to the language. Did she base this on Monica or was it just in the air?
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Culture is concerned with things that only exist in the imagination of humans. Science aims to make sense of everything else.
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I respectfully disagree. Culture is collective brainstates. Your divide gives culture an unjustified separate status.
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That may be true but it's like describing the operation of a steam engine by tracking the velocity and position of every gas molecule
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Or that chemistry is just physics.
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Of course not. But it doesn't make chemistry less scientific. Or open to scientific enquiry. You make this exception for culture.
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I don't see how the value ascribed to a cultural object can be measured scientifically without resorting to values or brainstates themselves
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Did Darwin need the discovery of genes to talk scientifically about evolution? I think memetics is the answer to your question.
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I agree that culture may usefully be regarded from an evolutionary physiological standpoint.
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