[peirce-l] Re: Death of Arnold Shepperson

[Joseph Ransdell]

My characterization of Arnold's paper "Safety and the Logic of Hazard" is not adequate and, after going through it again -- very hurriedly but with a better focus of attention than the first time through -- I  realized that both his title and my brief characterization of it as being an application of Peirce's Economy of Research hardly even begins to suggest what it is really about.  In fact, I don't know how to describe it in such a way as to do justice to it, but I do want to say that I find the range of things he is concerned with in it astonishing and extraordinarily exciting and I will be reading it again and again at the pace which it deserves.  There is, for example a several page overview of Peirce's career and his philosophy which is masterfully done, well worth reading for that alone, as can also be said about his account of some of the principles of Peirce's pioneering theory of economy of research.  But  what especially interested me is a remarkable and lengthy discussion of the history of various and sometimes competing and contradicting conceptions of culture, tradition, and custom that have flourished at one time and another in the discourse of social theorists of various sorts, this being presented within the contextual frame of Peirce's categories of Quality, Actuality, and Representation which Arnold provides.  The paper as a whole is so rich conceptually, and done with such a light touch and magisterial skill, that I can't imagine that there would be anyone in this forum who would not find what Arnold is doing in this paper to be of unusual interest for one reason or another.  I would be very much interested myself in other people's reactions to it.   Here is the URL again:

     http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/shepperson/safety.pdf


Joe Ransdell

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From: Joseph Ransdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:29:14 PM
Subject: [peirce-l] Death of Arnold Shepperson

John and Gary:

As you suggested, Gary, I have made the paper by Arnold  on safety and the logic of hazard -- which is an application of Peirce's economy of research -- available at  ARISBE,  on the page for Peirce-related  papers. The URL for that is:

http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/shepperson/safety.pdf

I discovered, though, that the link for the paper he did with Tomaselli, on cinematic consciousness., does not work, apparently because it is on a page on the website for the Journal of South African and American Studies called Safundi that has restricted access: the link merely leads to the home page of that journal (which looks like an excellent journal, by the way).  I wonder if John, or somebody who knows Keyan Tomaselli could find out about making that available without restriction somehow.  I could mount a copy of it at ARISBE, for example, or it could appear on somebody else's website to which I am given a URL that I can use.  

Arnold  also did a transcription of a Peirce MS which I have a copy of .  I don't know what plans he had for that but I am sure he would like to make it generally available.   I forget the number of the MS at the moment but I can find the transcription, I am sure, and will mount that on the web page for Peirce's own work after checking it over to see if it needs any tweaking.  I will be pleased to post anything else which he did which anyone thinks he would like to see made generally available in this way.

Joe Ransdell

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