"... pragmatists in the James-Dewey temper will have to learn *difficult*philosophy, something they have successfully avoided doing for about three generations, through disinclination, dullness of mind, and uninformed superstitions about the role of reason in philosophy. The inheritors of the James and Dewey temper, however, are such as to believed, quite dogmatically, that all metaphysics is bad metaphysics--and here we have a nice examples among them of the methods of tenacity, authority and the a priori method , which is what they have done in fixing their beliefs about the matter. Hence, they neither read nor understand Royce, nor Whitehead, nor anyone else who is difficult to understand, and the often dislike Peirce and do not understand him, even though they have developed a conscience about forcing themselves to read him, once.
Asking contemporary pragmatists to reconsider metaphysics is recieve as though one had asked them to go to church to get a little religion, an affront to any respectable intellectual these days, especially the followers of Dewey and James. They would rather go to hell than learn logic and try some metaphysics. But most of them have done some metaphysics badly, and fail to grasp the situation until they feel Rorty's pointy nominalistic trident poking their collective behinds." Time Will and Purpose, Auxier, 120 I bet ol' Matt Kundert would get a kick out of that. 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
