Since I've been forced to think about reflexivity for my thesis, I can't believe how little it's a requirement in the pure sciences or in any profession- whether it's finance or law.
How can we learn, if we don't question how we learn, what our basic premises and assumptions are, and what the limits to our knowledge are?
The markets and laws aren't neutral either- power and knowledge flows affect them as much as they do the 'social world'. Can we really draw a line dividing the social and natural world, as texts discussing epistemology often do?
I keep coming back to the conclusion that philosophy needs to be taught in schools- how can we truly study anything without knowing how and why the subject evolved?
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