Hi DMB/Matt Just like to say that I think the call to pure experience is no more than a call to look at experience without SOM assumptions. Clearly traditional empiricism makes these assumptions. The call to pure experience is a call to think again about experience and look for new descriptions that can replace the old ones full of SOM assumptions. In Europe Nietzsche kicks off this thought by rejecting the Platonic-Christian prioritising of some transcendent real world beyond appearance (experience). And Husserl makes a call of back to experience like Dewey, although he rebuilds a sort of Cartesianism again. Heidegger picks it up again in Being and Time and re-describes experience with a language highly 'purified' of SOM assumptions (which is why it is so difficult read) and has much in common with Dewey.
Of course, European philosophy has more doubts about traditional science than the American pragmatistsas they see science as full of aspects of SOM such as determinism, absolute-laws, reductionism. Of course, like Rorty, Matt thinks where Dewey is re-describing experience in non-SOM terms he should do this without any metaphysics-ontology as this is re-instating a new sort of Platonism. I think this view is wrong, like Hildebrand I think we need to recognise a realm of experience that is more than linguistic and a realm of active and practical relations. David M 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/
