There is at least one surviving blog by Guy Robinson: Guy's Philosophical Nuggets http://dalkeyguy.blogspot.com/
Among other things, his correspondence with Thomas Kuhn can be found here. As is usual for all reactionary philosophies, Robinson's bugbear is Descartes and the Enlightenment. For an advocate of dialectics, there is no dialectical thinking here. See Robinson's first post: <http://dalkeyguy.blogspot.com/2007/11/questioning-questions-1-we-need-to-ask.html>Questioning the Qestions Now look at this: <http://dalkeyguy.blogspot.com/2007/12/reconstructing-science.html>Reconstructing Science Here, in lukewarm support for Meera Nanda's hardcore anti-pomo anti-subjectivist approach to science, Robinson reveals his philosophical bankruptcy. "Yet at the same time we can find deeply problematic Galileo's image of 'The Book of Nature' in which the sciences are already 'written in mathematical symbols'. Equally problematic is the picture of scientific progress as the approach to some ultimate and final truth. That view of a truth standing above and outside of all of humanity, human interests, human practices and human languages has a pretty clearly theological character that ought to ring some alarm bells amongst Marxists. "It is not that we have to find some via media between the 'realist' and the 'anti-realist'. We have to see that both positions are incoherent and unintelligible." Wrong! "It is neither Marxist nor helpful to picture scientific progress in the way Meera Nanda wants to, as 'increase in truthfulness', that is, as an approach to to some (presumably unattainable) ideal, an 'ultimate truth'. I have criticized this 'approach' model of progress elsewhere (also in Philosophy and Mystification - ch.11, 'On Misunderstanding Science'). Here I will say only that it is both undialectical and un-Marxist, and that we can make sense neither of the ideal nor of the notion of approaching it. (It has its political counterpart in the utopian socialisms that were roundly and rightly criticized by Marx and Engels.)" Drivel! You can read the rest of Robinson's amalgam of sense and nonsense for yourself. But this can serve as evidence of the worthlessness of Wittgensteinian Marxism. Scientific Realism and the correspondence theory of truth are correct; their opposites are wrong. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
