Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

2006-01-08 Thread andie nachgeborenen
. ^ CB: It sems possible that Heisenberg may have had some rightwing political conscoiusness, I believe. Heisenberg was fairly right wing. In his autobiography he recalls serving in the militai that helped put down the Spartakus rebellion, and of course, though no Nazi, he later stayed

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

2006-01-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:31:26 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . ^ CB: It sems possible that Heisenberg may have had some rightwing political conscoiusness, I believe. Heisenberg was fairly right wing. In his autobiography he recalls serving in the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
As to extrascientific orientations that may have affected Heisenberg, Paul Forman had a rather bold thesis: Paul Forman. Weimar Culture, Causality and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment, published in Historical

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
Ooops, one of my sentences is rather awkward At 08:24 AM 1/8/2006 -0500, Ralph Dumain wrote: As Frank documents in his book, Heisenberg shared the same reactionary idealist views as other prominent physicists such as James Jeans and Arthur Eddington. Heisenberg never quite claimed that the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Forman and his critics

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
I don't know what to make of this weird stuff: Whig History of Science http://www.ivorcatt.com/3802.htm As far as I can tell, Forman still has a position at the Smithsonian: http://americanhistory2.si.edu/about/staff.cfm?key=12staffkey=320 I have a deep suspicion of all sociology of science.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Forman and postmodernism

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
My suspicions are becoming confirmed: In postmodernity the two cultures are one -- and many Paul Forman http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/FormanThinkPiece.html To me, this is yet another symptom of the disintegrating research programme of bourgeois liberalism. In fact, the war between the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physic

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen ^ CB: It sems possible that Heisenberg may have had some rightwing political conscoiusness, I believe. Heisenberg was fairly right wing. In his autobiography he recalls serving in the militai that helped put down the Spartakus rebellion, and of course, though no

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
Well, if he did, which I doubt -- I know no reason to think he knew that Lenin had writen on theory of knowledge -- ^ CB: Sure there is. And there is a lot of reason to think that he knew what Engels had written about materalism and idealism, because he was in the German university system.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain Lenin never took issue with scientific theories nor made them conform to an apriori conception of dialectical materialism. What he observed was that what scientists (along with philosophers) were doing was drawing illegitimate philosophical conclusions from their own scientific

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectics

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
Frederick Engels Socialism: Utopian and Scientific II [Dialectics] In the meantime, along with and after the French philosophy of the 18th century, had arisen the new German philosophy, culminating in Hegel

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: [hegel-marx] For Erich (A quote! oh no!)

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
The confused leading the confused . . . how sad. First!--see: Marx Engels on the Science of History http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/marxsci2.html Neither Marx nor Engels were social constructionists, nor was their 'sociology' so shallow as the undialectical sociology of science that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism Leninism lives

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
By riffraff I meant the Soviet philosophers and theoreticians who followed Lenin, not only the less supple thinkers of Lenin's generation (including the ex-Menshevik Deborin), but especially the younger breed that supplanted their elders as Stalinism was consolidated. The records of Haldane

[Marxism-Thaxis] Engels on the development of materialism in opposition to theism/fideism

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
Engels on the development of materialism in opposition to theism. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm I am perfectly aware that the contents of this work will meet with objection from a considerable portion of the British public. But, if we Continentals had

[Marxism-Thaxis] Scandal

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
Scandal http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/0 3/EDG2IGCOIT1.DTL over Stem-Cell Research ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 27, Issue 6

2006-01-08 Thread A. Mani
Re :3. Linda Nicholson - Interpreting Gender (Charles Brown) From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Linda Nicholson - Interpreting Gender To: 'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired'

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism Leninism lives

2006-01-08 Thread Charles Brown
Dumain rdumain By riffraff I meant the Soviet philosophers and theoreticians who followed Lenin, not only the less supple thinkers of Lenin's generation (including the ex-Menshevik Deborin), but especially the younger breed that supplanted their elders as Stalinism was consolidated. CB: Of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics again

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
A fourth chapter of Frank's MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY is now on my web site: CHAPTER 8: philosophic misinterpretations of the quantum theory http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank08.html As I mentioned before, Chapter 8 deals with the mystification of quantum theory,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: agnosticism, materialism, atheism

2006-01-08 Thread Ralph Dumain
I re-read this material in recent months. I cited from this and other works on my web page containing comparable remarks: Marx Engels on Skepticism Praxis: Selected Quotations http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/marx-skeptic.html Most of these passages are very well-known, but check out