Dear Ken
You wrote:
'There are not as many mysteries about how scholarly and scientific communities develop as one may think. This is a matter of what Wittgenstein might label a "puzzle" rather than a "problem." In each case, the puzzle involves sorting out the embedded social and cultural factors, the networks and friendships, alliances and enmities that shape any community. In, most communities of practice are alike, including scientific and scholarly communities of practice.'
Indeed, in the puzzle land of Wittgenstein and in within philosophy as therapeutics, there is probably no want or need of mystery. Puzzles are premised on their ability to be solved or dissolved or unmasked and unattached. The mystery bit, of why this puzzle has puzzled me, is not very useful.
However, within philosophy as hygenics, there is a use for this mystery.
cheers
keith
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