Here the scientific narrative constructs its own ontology

Re: "Response to my critics," by Meera Nanda Rich Sun 21 Jan 2007 09:41 PM PST

Such privileging assumptions by scientist following an epistemology of reductionism such as Nanda, Darwkins, Dennett, et al. that reduce all phenomena to the first causes in matter, are themselves under-girded by what can only be called their own "metaphysical beliefs" about Origins, matter, causality, and relationship. Here the scientific narrative constructs its own ontology.

This can be missed because she bases her ultimately argument on the effectiveness of science as instrumental reason, as a means to determine and ends. - an ends that deconstruction shows to be often defined by its "effectiveness as an economic force" - the material success of reductionist science has demonstrated is effectiveness and utility as an epistemology. This certainly should be recognized in any communicative domain which aligns inter-subjective relationships across cultures, epochs, epistemes, or civil polity, however to privilege its assumption as a primary ontology falls prey to the same metaphysical fallacies which she accuses her detractors of. rich