Hi Paul, >>>>> Paul: >>>>> I really see the MOQ as an attempt to avoid >>>>> that while still remaining a viable philosophy. >>>> >>>> Marsha: >>>> Viable? What would be your standard for viability? >>> >>> Paul: >>> It's difficult to be very precise and exhaustive about, Marsha, but I'm >>> thinking something like - providing explanations of sufficient clarity, >>> credibility, applicability, precision, elegance etc. (in other words, >>> intellectual quality) to support widespread acceptance and use. First of >>> all in academic communities and eventually into wider society. >> >> Marsha: >> Have you presented your paper to the academy? Are you planning to? > > Paul: > It's not good enough as it stands, I just wanted to get the thoughts down > mainly and then saw that it may help resolve some of the disputes I had > read on here (though I'm doubting that now). Plus I think it's too > abstract, on its own. I think the better approach is incorporating the MOQ > into other areas of study, as Patrick Doorly and others are doing. > > Also, there are other philosophers who see that value is real, or at least > argue that it has a "phenomenal reality" (McDowell and Oddie, if I recall > correctly) and I tend to think that elements of the MOQ will become common > sense over time. I see things like the "model-dependent realism" being > advocated by Hawking (which I think Adrie mentioned) and the two-stage > model of free will as theories moving closer to agreement with the MOQ. > This gradual reweaving of MOQ-like ideas into the mythos is more likely, > in my opinion, than the wholesale adoption of a whole metaphysics. But I > love the broad, ambitious strokes of Pirsig's work.
Marsha: There are times when an email forum seems totally inadequate. I sense deep caring and I naturally want to respond. I have not challenged your thesis, but admire your motive and effort. What dispute would you like to help resolve? Can you first set up the problem, as you interpret it? Marsha 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
