Thanks Platt, Excellent article AND it's always fun to find out that the rest of the world also pays attention to the topics we take so seriously here.
I suppose you also noticed his commentary on ZAMM entitled, Father's, Sons and Motorcycles?<http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/fathers-sons-and-motorcycles/> John On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > 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
