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To steal a little from that hopelessly out-of-fashion Humanist, the Young
Marx: I'd be very interested in a sociology of the sociology of
scientific knowledge: who will debunk the debunkers?!
Less facetiously, practitioners of the SSK--no less than advocates of the
universal applicability of rational choice theory--have a problem not
fouling their own nest, or so it seems to me. Can they explain
*themselves*? I won't rehearse the well-known paradox that the legitimacy
of the theory *qua* theory depends on a negative answer to this question;
which in turn--this failure "at home"--stands in need of more than ad hoc
rationalization.
Kevin Quinn
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