Therefore, hermeneuticists conclude that when researchers claim to bracket off their prejudgements, they only succeed in disguising them. For this reason, critics of scientism have called it “a view from nowhere” — meaning that its values and commitments are nowhere to be seen. Our only hope, hermeneuticists such as Heidegger argued, is to develop ways of thinking about human being that understand that people are on-going events, not static things that can be known, controlled, and repaired through the use of technicist, instrumental methods. Without such understanding, we are continually involved in a self-deception about the content and limits of human knowledge. Historically, some of our most damaging social problems can be traced to beliefs and actions justified by the warrant of objectivity. (pp. 211-13)
Cushman, P. (2013). Because the Rock Will not Read the Article: A Discussion of Jeremy D. Safran's Critique of Irwin Z. Hoffman's “Doublethinking our way to Scientific Legitimacy”. Psychoanal. Dial., 23(2):211-224
Therefore, the following:
a view from somewhere - hermeneutics
a view from nowhere - scientism
a view from anywhere - The Big Brother
and, nowhere is anywhere
