Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] RE: George Resich's *How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science

2005-07-20 Thread Ralph Dumain
At 06:47 PM 7/19/2005 +0900, CeJ wrote: I'm wondering if the cold war actually transformed anything. And is there really much more to say on the topic after Lakatos, Feyerabend, but also the post-structuralists? What does this mean? More interesting to me has always been LP-related but not

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 21, Issue 17

2005-07-20 Thread CeJ
I'm wondering if the cold war actually transformed anything. And is there really much more to say on the topic after Lakatos, Feyerabend, but also the post-structuralists? What does this mean? I think the book has a far too ambitious title? The intellectual foundation of the Cold War could be

[Marxism-Thaxis] George Resich's *How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science

2005-07-20 Thread Charles Brown
I read the Piaget article. The argument was very good. But then in the below, the example of the mathematician as a child counting the pebbles seems to me Piaget falls into a problem. An _individual_ child posed as if she _rediscovers_ the process by which counting was discovered is , I think, a

[Marxism-Thaxis] 'Twilight in the Desert'

2005-07-20 Thread Charles Brown
Oil and Gas: 'Twilight in the Desert' author Simmons talks Saudi oil supply, int'l economy Are the Saudis running out of oil, and are their reserve estimates accurate? What other sources might help fill the gap if Saudi production declines? And what will be the effects on the U.S. and world

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] 'Twilight in the Desert'

2005-07-20 Thread Victor
CB, There are so many signs that the petroleum economy is sliding downhill that I'm beginning to believe that the Club of Rome projection of a petrol producing plateau by the first decade of the 21st century is much more likely than the current predictions of the end of rising production rates

[Marxism-Thaxis] RE: George Resich's *How the Cold War (CeJ)

2005-07-20 Thread A. Mani
6. RE: George Resich's *How the Cold War (CeJ) Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:01:01 +0900 From: CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 21, Issue 17 To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu snip PiagetThe second reason is found in Godel's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 21, Issue 18

2005-07-20 Thread CeJ
PiagetThe second reason is found in Godel's theorem. It is the fact that there are limits to formalisation. Any consistent system sufficiently rich to contain elementary arithmetic cannot prove its own consistency. So the following questions arise: logic is a formalisation, an