On 10/21/2016 4:16 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
Thanks for summarizing the issue so clearly. This has traditionally
been one of the most difficult points to get across both on this
List and within the wider spheres of Peirce readership.
Thanks for the note of support. For some related issues, see the
the recent lecture on "Scientism and its discontents" by Susan Haack:
https://www.academia.edu/29057252/SCIENTISM_AND_ITS_DISCONTENTS_II_Scientific_Philosophy_Yes_Scientistic_Philosophy_No_PowerPoints_
Those slides are not numbered. To make it easier to refer to them,
I converted the .pptx file to a .pdf file with slide numbers:
http://www.jfsowa.com/ikl/Haack16.pdf
Following are some of my favorite excerpts:
Slide 10
what’s happening is that philosophy is becoming more scientistic
rather than, in the desirable sense, more scientific
Slide 43
I often think of Huxley’s Brave New World, where the Controller asks
the Savage what a philosopher is, and he replies, “a man who dreams
of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth.”
Slide 84
the idea that philosophy can be conducted purely a priori is
an illusion … but a seductive one
This slide is illustrated with a photo of Bertrand Russell sitting
in an armchair.
John
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