Is It Interesting, Interesting Enough?
To use Murray Davis' own premise, I will deny his assumption of what makes a theory interesting. Undoubtedly, his major point throughout the essay is that denying an old theory is a stepping stone for a new theory to becoming interesting. In other words, the concept of interesting correlates with refuting a previous theory: behaviorism was a response to psychoanalysis; cognitive a response to behaviorism; Marxism a response to industrialization. In these cases, each new theory was built upon the negation of past ideas considered archaic, obsolete or deleterious to society and its constituents.
Simply, theorists likewise scientists and scholars, always try to find the new breakthrough that betters past
To use Murray Davis' own premise, I will deny his assumption of what makes a theory interesting. Undoubtedly, his major point throughout the essay is that denying an old theory is a stepping stone for a new theory to becoming interesting. In other words, the concept of interesting correlates with refuting a previous theory: behaviorism was a response to psychoanalysis; cognitive a response to behaviorism; Marxism a response to industrialization. In these cases, each new theory was built upon the negation of past ideas considered archaic, obsolete or deleterious to society and its constituents.
Simply, theorists likewise scientists and scholars, always try to find the new breakthrough that betters past