Thanks for the confirmation, Paul! I hope we can get a range of peircean Philosophers as well as Peircean scholars taking the lead in the study of Frederik Stjernfelt's book, as he's pretty close to the ideal of being both, I think.
I'm attaching an updated outline of the seminar, which still has many blanks for threadleaders. It's now confirmed that the seminar will be conducted simultaneously on the peirce-l and biosemiotics lists, and we're aiming to start August 17 with Frederik making the introductory post. I'll keep you posted as the agenda develops. gary f. From: paul eduardo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 29-Jul-14 5:47 PM To: Gary Fuhrman; [email protected] Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] Invigorating Philosophy with Natural Propositions Gary, List , I agree with the difference between PS and PP, especially after having been in the SIAP at Oregon University in EUGENE. There, in a conference about political philosophy, it was raised that political philosophy can be considered a vision, or be used as a tool. Philosophy in general, and pragmatism in particular, can be considered in both aspects. In first place, philosophy like a vision can be studied from the point of view of a scholar. But if philosophy must be considered like a science with functions of the others and the duty of improve the world, so, we should consider use the different concepts of philosophy in general and the peircean concepts in particular. This kind of doubt is own of the philosophy, but it doesn't in physics, in which the concepts are used like tools by the applied sciences like engineering. I am very interested in the application of peircean concepts in the hypothesis generation, so I can be considered like a PP, but I need all the investigation of the PS to do my work. The ideal would be be PP and PS at the same time. But this would be very difficult, because it would demand a lot of time. So, I prefer use the concepts and relations discovered by PS like tools to solve quotidian problems. I mean, that the two positions are necessary, philosophy like a vision and philosophical concepts like tools, PS and PP; and this demonstrate that between theory and practice there are a continuity, although the human limitation forces us to break this continuity, which is reestablished in the research community. Paul _____
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