{"id":34,"date":"2014-10-20T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:29:21","slug":"the-barbarism-of-specialisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/2014\/10\/20\/the-barbarism-of-specialisation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barbarism of Specialisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth here: What do you all think about this paper by Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset?<\/p>\n<p>I asked Su to add it to the module&#8217;s Mendelev list because I found it fascinating that a 1930s philosopher reacting to Spanish fascism had something to say to me as a proto-interdisciplinary scientist starting out in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>I originally came across the essay in a collection of science writing put together by Martin Gardener who wrote a regular column in Scientific American and was most famous (to me) for popularising <a title=\"Conway's Game of Life\" href=\"http:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway's_Game_of_Life\" target=\"_blank\">Conway&#8217;s Game if Life<\/a> (which some of you may have had as a screensaver at some point).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth here: What do you all think about this paper by Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset? I asked Su to add it to the module&#8217;s Mendelev list because I found it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205],"tags":[141140,432,428303],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramble","tag-interdisciplinarity","tag-philosophy","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TPKi-y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webs6203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}