Re: [Fis] Fw: Clarifying Posting. Speculative Realism

2016-05-08 Thread John Collier
Brenner ; fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Fw: Clarifying Posting. Speculative Realism Joseph -- Regarding: ?As it turns out, however, Speculative Realism possesses its own set of weaknesses which can be ascribed in a general way to its retention of concepts embodying classical binary, truth-functional logic

Re: [Fis] Fw: Clarifying Posting. Speculative Realism

2016-05-08 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Joseph -- Regarding: ?As it turns out, however, Speculative Realism possesses its own set of weaknesses which can be ascribed in a general way to its retention of concepts embodying classical binary, truth-functional logic. These include an ontology of 'things' rather than processes as the furnitu

[Fis] Fw: Clarifying Posting. Speculative Realism

2016-05-06 Thread Joseph Brenner
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The last couple of postings have opened the discussion in a direction their authors may not have intended. Bob's felt personal plea for a phenomenological approach to biology, and hence to other sciences, and as the foundation of a philosophy, begs the question of