Cathy, Stephen, List--In reflecting on Cathy's good questions and Stephen's thoughtful 'first response', I thought immediately of Joe's remarks which pretty much constitute the peirce-l forum page, some of them seemingly directed precisely to Cathy's questions. See: http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm It isn't necessary to read all that Joe wrote there, but I find that every time I scroll down that page that I find some paragraph heading or two that suggest subject matter on list-related issues I want to reflect more on at that given time, and I begin a new dialogue with Joe (reading through the whole page once is also very highly recommended). But I think Cathy's questions really do need our reflection, both apart from and in the context of Joe's goals and purposes for this forum. Best, Gary
Gary Richmond Philosophy and Critical Thinking Communication Studies LaGuardia College of the City University of New York E202-O 718 482-5700 *** *** *** *** >>> "Stephen C. Rose" 03/26/12 9:42 AM >>> What is currently working well on the list? What, if anything, could be improved? > If we should promote it, it would help to have a paragraph with succinct directions that all could use. I have been very impressed with the quality of posts and the civility here. What are our goals with this list? > I have assumed the goal was/is to help all be more clear about Peirce and his contributions and to suggest to a wide audience the relevance of Peirce now and in the future. Would it be right to say it is a community of inquiry? If so, how is the inquiry going? > Yes but not to the exclusion of a wider goal It goes well when contributions add to the general sense of Peirce's relevance and the means of expressing it. If it is not right to see the goal of the list as primarily a community of inquiry, what goals does it have? And how might they be best realized? > The main goal would be to keep the flame alive and add fuel to it. I think this is being realized. For example the recent Deacon interchange led me to the PDF which shows that Deacon did indeed study Pierce. I intend to do what I can to spread some of his insights. Such posts as Gene's most recent will appeal to a a wider audience than this list. I see this list as a force in the effort to move beyond the binary of Dawkins-speak and religion-speak to a Peirce-informed worldview. The goal would thus be articulating and spreading the relevance of Peirce. The means are are the same with the Web where this gets done. *ShortFormContent at Blogger* On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Catherine Legg wrote: > Hello all! > > > > Some stimulating discussions at the SAAP regarding this list have > encouraged me to start a thread not with any particular goal in mind, but > to see where it might lead. > > > > What I’m interested to pursue is of the nature of a “check-in” regarding > this list. > > > > As a loosely affiliated group of Peirce enthusiasts, are we getting the > most out of the list that we could be? > > > > What is currently working well on the list? > > What, if anything, could be improved? > > What are our goals with this list? Would it be right to say it is a > community of inquiry? If so, how is the inquiry going? > > If it is not right to see the goal of the list as primarily a community of > inquiry, what goals does it have? And how might they be best realized? > > > > Sharp observers may spot a certain encouragement towards communal critical > self-reflection in the above. > > > > Cheers everyone, Cathy > > > > Catherine Legg > > Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Programme > > University of Waikato > > Private Bag 3105 > > 3240, Hamilton, New Zealand > > *http://waikato.academia.edu/CathyLegg* > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L > listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to > lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body > of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to > PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
