2nd semester blog topic #2

1,000-1,500 words; due by midnight, Friday, February 19. Live blog to follow on Monday, February 22nd. Write your entry on your own blog and post the link to that entry here as a comment.

“This rubber tree won’t yield latex—the biologist blames the sapling, the geologist blames the soil, the contractor blames the unskilled labourer and the owner says it is fighting back at being controlled.” (Amitav Ghosh) If different Ways of Knowing or Areas of Knowledge yield contradictory statements about the world, on what basis do we choose among them?