In the Guardian interview in the past year ? He said (only half jokingly) the quality of thinking in British philosophy was superior to that in the US ... or words to that effect ....
Need me to dig it out ? Ian On 8/18/07, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian > > What comment? > > David M > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ian glendinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 7:44 PM > Subject: Re: [MD] subject / object logic > > > > Great to hear DMB, two points .. > > > > Do you see the Granger (Dewey & Pirsig ....) book as part of that US > > Pragamatist mainstream ? > > > > There is a certain irony in Pirsig's recent remark about the relative > > qualities of British and American philosopical thought, no ? > > > > Ian > > > > On 8/17/07, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> gav said: > >> ...the surprise is that this is being taught within uni now. american > >> classical philosophy should be a course over here i think. if it was i > >> would > >> have felt a lot more at home.. jeez i think i should have gone to school > >> in > >> denver. > >> > >> dmb says: > >> I was surprized too and had been expecting to find the best MOQ > >> connections > >> in some Eastern philosophies, in mysticism and other exotic stuff. I > >> can't > >> tell you how thrilling it is to be wrong about that. Now it looks like > >> the > >> MOQ can EASILY be compared to mainstream, relatively unjargonated, > >> American > >> as apple pie pragmatism. > >> > >> I'm sure there are a few empty seats at the uni. Come on over. Or, if > >> time > >> an money are short, you could just find some books like the one I quoted. > >> So > >> far I have three textbooks on pragmatism and they all seem to paint the > >> same > >> basic picture. I'd bet big bucks they aren't the only ones. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> _________________________________________________________________ > >> Learn.Laugh.Share. Reallivemoms is right place! > >> http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us > >> > >> Moq_Discuss mailing list > >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > >> Archives: > >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > >> > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
