Jon S. I was not aware of this text. Perhaps it is the source of Val's comment. Perhaps he will chime in and reveal his opinion.
Cheers Jerry Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Jon A, Val Daniel, Jon S, John S, List, > > Let me ask a couple of questions about your experiences engaging with others > in collaborative inquiry using online tools including Wikipedia, blogs and > the Peirce-List. If others have suggestions based on their own experiences, > please feel free to chime in. > > As you know, I'm working with a group that has been developing a pair of > related collaborative research projects. Our aims are twofold: first, we are > trying to bring a network of Peirce scholars and interested laypeople > together for the purpose of transcribing and interpreting Peirce's > unpublished manuscripts in the SPIN project; second, we are trying to bring > the network of Peirce scholars together with scientists who draw on the > philosophical and logical ideas Peirce was developing in order to promote and > support cutting edge collaborative research in a broad range of areas > including biosemiotics, cognitive science and computer science in the APERI > project. Both projects are meant to be open to all and democratic in spirit. > We've created draft versions of two web pages to help publicize these efforts: > > 1. SPIN project: https://sites.google.com/site/spinpeirce/ > 2. APERI project: https://sites.google.com/site/abductivepathways/ > > For the last year and a half, we have been selecting a suite of existing > online tools, and then we've been additional functionality when needed (e.g., > by adding LaTeX capabilities to the FromThePage transcription platform for > the sake of encoding mathematical and logical formulas and diagrams). See: > http://fromthepage.com/collection/show?collection_id=16 > > Considerable time has been spent developing a framework for the project, we > have been active in asking for letters of commitment from Peirce scholars and > scientists to show funding agencies that we have buy-in from a number of > people willing to engage, and we've spent more hours than I would care to > admit applying to public and private grant agencies for the sake of securing > the funding that is needed to support the project for the next several years. > > Given the dreams Jon A has dreamed about building a true community of > learning and inquiry using online resource, and given what you and others > have learned--both good and bad--by engaging with Wikipedia, online blogs and > the like, do you have suggestions to offer about the following questions: > > a. What does and doesn't work in the context of Wikipedia for the sake of > building what you consider to be a true community of learning and inquiry? > b. What suite of resources would you recommend that are currently available > to foster the growth of such a community? > c. We believe that some kind of social publishing/forum discussion tool would > be helpful to support collaborative research between people who are > physically in different parts of the world, but we haven't found a platform > that really suites the needs of the community. Can you suggest one--or > suggest features that such a tool should have to promote a true community of > learning and inquiry? > > We intend to use a range of online resources that, taken together, will > function something like a "research ecosystem" including: (i) regular > discussions between small research teams utilizing video-conferencing with > screen sharing; (ii) dialogue mapping of the conversations taking place in > video-conferences, by email, text or what you, as a kind of shared community > research notebook; (iii) a network blog to keep the SPIN and APERI > communities informed about what the different research teams are doing and > learning; (iv) a relatively informal online e-journal to publish work in > progress (e.g., including such things as an outline or prospectus of a > research project that is just getting underway, diagrams that are being used > to see questions and frame hypotheses, and pre-prints of drafts of articles > that are in the works). What online tools or approaches would you recommend > that we use or avoid given the aims of the SPIN and APERI projects? > > I appreciate any suggestions you have to offer. > > Yours, > > Jeff > > Jeffrey Downard > Associate Professor > Department of Philosophy > Northern Arizona University > (o) 928 523-8354 > ________________________________________ > From: Jon Awbrey [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 12:13 PM > To: E Valentine Daniel > Cc: Peirce List > Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Pragmatic Theory Of Truth > > Val, List, > > Proposal accepted! Actually, I feel like I've been working along > these lines ever since I first met up with Peirce. I'm currently > fighting some emotional resistance -- it makes me a little sad to > look at those old wiki-scraps -- the dreams we dreamed about what > Wikipedia could be! a true community of learning and inquiry! but > it was neither designed nor destined to become that. At any rate, > I would begin by poring over the relics I saved and trying to see > what sense we could make of them. By way of secondary literature, > I remember thinking that Susan Haack's 'Evidence and Inquiry' and > Cheryl Misak's 'Truth and the End of Inquiry' were rather helpful > in framing the issue. The papers Susan Awbrey and I wrote in the > 90s and 00s attempted to tackle pieces of the puzzle, namely, how > to integrate the object-facing and inter-sign aspects of semiosis, > the 1st implied by correspondence theories and the 2nd implied by > consensus theories of truth. > > Published Paper: > http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350508401082013 > > Conference Talk: > http://www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm > > Regards, > > Jon > >> On 3/13/2017 2:02 PM, E Valentine Daniel wrote: >> Dear Jon and Peirces, >> I propose that we complete the customary (incomplete/dyadic) theories of >> truth, viz., by consensus and by correspondence, by adding, Truth by >> "concordance" (what you, Jon, call "triple correspondence"). >> val daniel >> >> E. Valentine Daniel >> Professor of Anthropology >> 958 Schermerhorn Ext., >> Columbia University >> New York, 10027 >> >> (917) 741-7764 >> [email protected] >> >>> On Mar 13, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Peircers, >>> >>> Looking over these old articles it occurs to me >>> there may be a few bits in them worth salvaging, >>> so I started a blog series for attempting that: >>> >>> https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2017/03/11/pragmatic-theory-of-truth-%e2%80%a2-1/ >>> >>> I think John Sowa's remarks about the “major failures caused by ignoring >>> [Peirce]” >>> and Jerry Chandler's remarks about later readings serving as a “Procrustian >>> bed >>> for CSP's concepts” are very apt in this context, and I will have more to >>> say >>> in that regard if I can get to it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jon >>> >>>> On 3/10/2017 4:18 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote: >>>> Peircers, >>>> >>>> I haven't looked at these articles since the days I wasted >>>> trying to justify the ways of Peirce to Wikipediots, other >>>> than to reformat them a little here and there, but some of >>>> their material may be instructive for ongoing discussions, >>>> especially the quotes from Peirce and Kant on the nominal >>>> character of truth definitions in terms of correspondence. >>>> To make the shortest possible shrift, I think we have to >>>> keep in mind that “correspondence” for Peirce can mean >>>> “triple correspondence”, in other words, just another >>>> name for a triadic relation. >>>> >>>> Note. The document histories of these InterSciWiki forks >>>> tell me that these drafts derive from Wikipedia revisions >>>> of 14 Feb 2007 and 29 Jun 2006, respectively. >>>> >>>> http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth >>>> >>>> http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Correspondence_theory_of_truth >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Jon >>>> > > -- > > inquiry into inquiry: https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ > academia: https://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey > oeiswiki: https://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey > isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA > facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. 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