
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is the Cork a Hybrid?
I think that being social constructivist doesn't prevent liteur from believing that quarks do their thing regardless of how they're described. I think what we may be doing is conflating problematic and non problematic situations for describing these things. There's no hybrid here in the sense of, there's a strong social or political component to this. They both are structure. They have is morphic structures. Like i said, i don't think that part matters. The constructed appearances part just don't matter. As long as everything is fixed on some mind independent reality. And if the mind independent reality is fixed, then the description will always be the same.
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