ABSTRACT
In the fourth seminar in the series, Garfinkel outlines the proposal he is developing on natural science discovery, based on the study of the optical pulsar. He sets up the argument by contrasting the “Galilean” object — the pulsar with measured properties of frequency and location — with the possible optical pulsar that the astronomers are hoping to have discovered during the series of observations they made at Kitt Peak in 1969. He also develops his praxiological reading of gestalt theory, with a focus on the art of M.C. Escher.
