All: Excellent summary of pragmatism in today's NY Times by Stanley Fish. The last few sentences should be enough to lure you into reading the full article:
"When pragmatism tells us there are no first principles, it not only disqualifies itself as a source of guidance and justification; it disqualifies the whole enterprise (of philosophy), at least in its more ambitious forms. What it leaves are the pleasures of doing philosophy, the pleasures of thinking about thinking freed from the burdensome expectation that we will finally get somewhere. Now there's an advantage and a gift to boot." (parens added) According to Fish, pragmatists would dismiss the MOQ's first principle of universal Quality The full article can be read at: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/?scp=1-spot&sq=opinionator&st=cse Regards, Platt 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/md/archives.html
