My
characterization of Arnold's paper "Safety and the Logic of Hazard" is
not adequate and, after going through it again -- very hurriedly but
with a better focus of attention than the first time through -- I
realized that both his title and my brief characterization of it as
being an application of Peirce's Economy of Research hardly even begins
to suggest what it is really about. In fact, I don't know how to
describe it in such a way as to do justice to it, but I do want to say
that I find the range of things he is concerned with in it astonishing
and extraordinarily exciting and I will be reading it again and again
at the pace which it deserves. There is, for example a several
page overview of Peirce's career and his philosophy which is
masterfully done, well worth reading for that alone, as can also be
said about his account of some of the principles of Peirce's pioneering
theory of economy of research. But what especially
interested me is a remarkable and lengthy discussion of the history of
various and sometimes competing and contradicting conceptions of
culture, tradition, and custom that have flourished at one time and
another in the discourse of social theorists of various sorts, this
being presented within the contextual frame of Peirce's categories of
Quality, Actuality, and Representation which Arnold provides. The
paper as a whole is so rich conceptually, and done with such a light
touch and magisterial skill, that I can't imagine that there would be
anyone in this forum who would not find what Arnold is doing in this
paper to be of unusual interest for one reason or another. I
would be very much interested myself in other people's reactions to it.
Here is the URL again:
http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/shepperson/safety.pdf
Joe Ransdell
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http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/shepperson/safety.pdf
Joe Ransdell
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John and Gary:
As you suggested, Gary, I have made the paper by Arnold on safety and the logic of hazard -- which is an application of Peirce's economy of research -- available at ARISBE, on the page for Peirce-related papers. The URL for that is:
http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/shepperson/safety.pdf
I discovered, though, that the link for the paper he did with Tomaselli, on cinematic consciousness., does not work, apparently because it is on a page on the website for the Journal of South African and American Studies called Safundi that has restricted access: the link merely leads to the home page of that journal (which looks like an excellent journal, by the way). I wonder if John, or somebody who knows Keyan Tomaselli could find out about making that available without restriction somehow. I could mount a copy of it at ARISBE, for example, or it could appear on somebody else's website to which I am given a URL that I can use.
Arnold also did a transcription of a Peirce MS which I have a copy of . I don't know what plans he had for that but I am sure he would like to make it generally available. I forget the number of the MS at the moment but I can find the transcription, I am sure, and will mount that on the web page for Peirce's own work after checking it over to see if it needs any tweaking. I will be pleased to post anything else which he did which anyone thinks he would like to see made generally available in this way.
Joe Ransdell
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As you suggested, Gary, I have made the paper by Arnold on safety and the logic of hazard -- which is an application of Peirce's economy of research -- available at ARISBE, on the page for Peirce-related papers. The URL for that is:
http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/shepperson/safety.pdf
I discovered, though, that the link for the paper he did with Tomaselli, on cinematic consciousness., does not work, apparently because it is on a page on the website for the Journal of South African and American Studies called Safundi that has restricted access: the link merely leads to the home page of that journal (which looks like an excellent journal, by the way). I wonder if John, or somebody who knows Keyan Tomaselli could find out about making that available without restriction somehow. I could mount a copy of it at ARISBE, for example, or it could appear on somebody else's website to which I am given a URL that I can use.
Arnold also did a transcription of a Peirce MS which I have a copy of . I don't know what plans he had for that but I am sure he would like to make it generally available. I forget the number of the MS at the moment but I can find the transcription, I am sure, and will mount that on the web page for Peirce's own work after checking it over to see if it needs any tweaking. I will be pleased to post anything else which he did which anyone thinks he would like to see made generally available in this way.
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