Jon,
Thanks for the link.
The duality or complementarity between Thought and Action (Dewey)
or Information and Control (as later generations came to cast it
within cybernetics, computer science, and the systems sciences)
has always been an integral feature of Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim.
Many of my early days on the Peirce List were exhausted in the
effort to communicate the implications of that integration.
But the pull toward Spectator Philosophies (James) is very
persistent and it will no doubt take the exertion of many
wills to overcome their one-sighted bias.
Regards,
Jon
On 3/1/2017 10:59 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote:
List:
Part 4, subtitled "Beyond Engineering," is now online at
http://www.structuremag.org/?p=11107. It discusses how *anyone *can use
the logic of ingenuity to imagine possibilities, assess alternatives, and
choose one of them to actualize. I have argued for years that just as
science is perceived as an especially systematic way of *knowing*, likewise
engineering could be conceived as an especially systematic way of *willing*;
and if this is really the case, then the distinctive reasoning process of
engineers *should* be paradigmatic for other kinds of decision-making,
including ethical deliberation.
Regards,
Jon
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
List:
Part 3, subtitled "Engineering Reasoning," is now online at
http://www.structuremag.org/?p=10592. It discusses how engineers use the
logic of ingenuity to simulate contingent events with necessary reasoning.
This is my attempt to explain Peirce's whole notion of diagrammatic
reasoning, using a variety of quotes from his writings.
Regards,
Jon
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <
jonalanschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
List:
I meant to post this back around the first of the month, and then kept
forgetting to do so. Part 2, subtitled "Engineering Analysis," is now
online at http://www.structuremag.org/?p=10490. It discusses how
engineers use the logic of ingenuity to solve real problems by analyzing
fictitious ones. It mostly consists of quotes from and comments on CP
3.559, which is part of Peirce's 1898 article in *Educational Review*,
"The Logic of Mathematics in Relation to Education" (
http://www.pragmaticism.net/works/csp_ms/P00653.pdf). It is the passage
that opened up to me this whole understanding of engineering thinking, when
I first encountered it in the volume edited by Matthew E. Moore, *Philosophy
of Mathematics: Selected Writings*.
Regards,
Jon
On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <
jonalanschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
List:
In an effort to apply Peirce's thought to my profession of engineering,
as well as introduce it to my fellow practitioners, I have written a
four-part series of articles under this heading for *STRUCTURE* magazine.
Part 1, subtitled "Engineering Design," appears in the September issue and
is also posted online.
http://www.STRUCTUREmag.org/?p=10373
In summary, I am defining "the logic of ingenuity" as the process of
(abductively) creating a diagrammatic representation of a problem and its
proposed solution, and then (deductively) working out the necessary
consequences, such that this serves as an adequate substitute for
(inductively) evaluating the actual situation. This first installment
discusses how engineers use it to design particular artifacts for specific
purposes, and connects it with many of my previous writings for the same
publication.
Any and all feedback is welcome!
Thanks,
Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA
Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman
www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt
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