Scientism vs. Realism

This past week I started reading about scientism, as Neil Postman describes it.   Scientism is in his description a way of trying to apply the science used in the physical and biological sciences to human nature -- to sociology.  He is showing that science applied in this way to human nature and human relations is misplaced, to say the least.

This has implications, you see, for our society in important ways.  For instance, human motion science attempts to increase productivity by controlling human movements.

It makes for fascinating reading -- and useful reading.