t: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Old Thread: Dialectics of Nature
I'll be interested in seeing what Soviet philosophical literature you have.
I have tons of it myself, more in book than in journal form, though I
probably have articles buried somewhere too. I know someone who wants to
support a project to s
I'll be interested in seeing what Soviet philosophical literature you
have. I have tons of it myself, more in book than in journal form, though
I probably have articles buried somewhere too. I know someone who wants to
support a project to scan it all, but I don't know anyone who has the time
OK, here is one reference I owe. This is a page from the web site of Keith
Sawyer with lots of urls to papers he has written. His whole website is
interesting. His papers on emergence are relevant to our current
discussion on the topic. His paper entitled "Emergence in Psychology:
Lessons f
She's a co-author of EINSTEIN A-Z. I saw both of them here in Washington,
and both are foxes. The book itself seems to be primarily of value to
those not already well versed in Einstein lore.
At 09:33 PM 2/21/2005 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote:
Science writer, Karen C. Fox, has posted on her webs
I will track down those references I promised and give all these posts the
careful read they deserve. Great stuff! But I gotta devote some serious
attention to an overdue project for the next week or something like
that. I'll be back ...
~ Steve
There's a treasure trove buried inside mountains of crap, but nevertheless
there is a lot of important Soviet work, in the history of philosophy and
philosophy of science. Even some of the more general programmatic works
are important, because the Soviets had some basic orientations, which were
References:
This is all there is on the subject:
Graziano, E.E. "Hegel's Philosophy as Basis for the Dewey Classification
Schedule", LIBRI, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 45-52.
Library science book, on integrative levels:
Jolley, J. L. The Fabric of Knowledge: A Study of the Relations Between
Ideas. Lond
At 09:05 PM 2/22/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
Interesting comment on the Dewey Decimal System. Now I am curious about
how it was invented and constructed, and how Hegelianism was part of
that. The Library of Congress system also has a logic I haven't
investigated but would like to understa
Charles wrote:
Yes, this concept of levels of organization or integration really gets at
emergence. For example, biology cannot be _reduced_ to chemistry. There are
emergent or qualitatively new aspects to biology that cannot be explained by
chemistry principles alone.
Emergent levels of integrati
CB: Hello Steve, Seems to me emergence theory is very much the type of thing
that Engels works on dialectics anticipates. No doubt the works of Soviet
scientists and philosophers are a treasure trove of work in this area that
is as yet only partly touched by Western Marxists.
Hi, Charles. Yes, tr
Thanks for your response, Ralph.
A little internet googling reveals that this concept had an interesting
journey via library science in the 1950's - as a way of conceptualizing
how reality is constructed - and was considered by some as a possible
replacement to the Dewey Decimal system.
Yes, I'
Science writer, Karen C. Fox, has posted on her website, a a paper
that she wrote back in school on the issue of emergentism
vs. reductionism in the philosophy of biology,
"Does Biology Reduce to Physics?
A Look at How the Question Has Been Answered Through Time."
(http://www.karenceliafox.com/Sc
At 11:17 PM 2/19/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
What wonderful descriptions of an obviously wonderful person. 35 is way,
way to soon to go, what a tragedy. What was Lisa's full name? Does she
have a representative piece of writing on the internet or otherwise
published? Whether she does or
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:17:11 -0800 Steve Gabosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> What wonderful descriptions of an obviously wonderful person. 35 is
> way,
> way to soon to go, what a tragedy. What was Lisa's full name? Does
> she
> have a representative piece of writing on the internet or o
What wonderful descriptions of an obviously wonderful person. 35 is way,
way to soon to go, what a tragedy. What was Lisa's full name? Does she
have a representative piece of writing on the internet or otherwise
published? Whether she does or not, she is clearly being remembered here,
and t
I made a comparable argument as part of a recent discussion in a local
philosophy group. The topic was emergence. I made a pitch for Engels as a
pioneer of this concept. Curiously, much of the literature on the
subject--including encyclopedia articles--is heavily biased in citing its
history
I took a peek at some of the posts on Engels and Dialectics of
Nature. Sorry about the loss of Lisa, she was clearly a very able thinker
and writer. Thank you, Ralph, for sharing your fond memory of her.
My own take on dialectics fits very closely with Engels, along the lines
George Novack ar
Reading this old thread of my late beloved Lisa brings back a lot of
memories. I do not, remember, however, how this discussion proceeded from
there. I do remember that it was an unfinished discussion, and that I had
it in the back of my mind to engage Lisa once again attempting to divert
her
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