On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:45 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve said to dmb: > ...As far as I know, you haven't read anything by Rorty beyond the quotes of > your favorite Rorty critics. Why not start from a position of ignorance > instead of from the preconception that Rorty is the great Satan? Why not > start with questions about Rorty instead of criticisms of Rorty? Why not try > to understand what Rorty is actually saying? It seems very important to you > to disagree with Rorty, why not actually read him and try to understand him > so you will know what it is you are committed in advance to disagree with? > > > > dmb says: > > I really don't know where you got the idea that my complaints are > preconceived or that I was committed to disagree in advance. If it weren't > for the fact that Rorty fans bring his views to the table here, I would > almost certainly think and write about something else. Anyway, why are you > even surprised by my dislike of Rorty? Here, he has been used to for nothing > except to undermine the MOQ. In the world of pragmatism he is wildly > controversial. On one hand the pragmatists are grateful for the publicity > he's brought to the school of thought, but they're also saddened that he > seems to have spawned an army of "relativists" and "pretentious dilettantes". > I kid you not. Those are the terms professionals use. > > Why is does my dislike of Rorty has to be caused by ignorance or malice? Why > can't I disagree with him for the same reasons that other pragmatists do? > (Haack, Hickman and Hildebrand)
Steve: Because you haven't read him?? Because unlike these other philosophers you ought to know better than to misread him as an SOMer?? 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
