Steven, Even as a veteran of the behaviorist-cognitivist wars of the late great twentieth century, who tended to favor the cognitive side and who found psychology a compelling enough subject to spend a parallel portion of a decade taking a M.A. in it, I too ceased belaboring the usual questions of consciousness in preference to catch-all categories like "experience" or the "contents of consciousness" as a primitive concept all by itself. I gradually came to the conclusion that consciousness itself demands no explanation, there being nothing surprising about awareness per se, and that only the contents of consciousness require explanation in terms of other contents of consciousness.
One point about your references to Boole and Frege. I don't think there is much chance of establishing a psychologistic approach to logic from either one of those books, especially the one translated from German, as Frege was decidedly anti-psychologistic on that question, and Boole's book exhibits little interest in the usual questions of psychology that others tended to use as a basis for logical theory. Regards, Jon -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey word press blog 1: http://jonawbrey.wordpress.com/ word press blog 2: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
