Dear Terry, Gary, Cathy, et al.,
Thanks for your comments. But I don't think you quite get my point,
namely; that the idealizing of the passions, including the idealization of
love, as a means of "creative agents capable of transforming the world though
the active realization of int
Forster: "On [Peirce's] view, human beings are not cogs in a vast cosmic
mechanism, but rather are free, creative agents capable of transforming the
world though the active realization of intelligent ideals. The ultimate fate of
the world is indeterminate and there is no guarantee that the force
Willard V.O.
Quine--followed by the mavericks who saw mathematics as a human
artifact, including Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Mill, Peirce, Dewey, and
Lakatos. ..."
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:09:42 -0400
From: Eugene Halton
Reply-To: Euge
Dear Irving,
A digression, from the perspective of art. You quote probability
theorist William
Taylor and set theorist Martin Dowd as saying:
> "The chief difference between scientists and mathematicians is that
> mathematicians have a much more direct connection to reality."
>> This
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point
is to change it." Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach.
Dear Stephen,
It seems to me Marx's words could be taken as a variant of your statement: "It
seems to me we would do well to frame (at least) non-scientific inquiry not
rick Baert, Neo-Pragmatism and Phenomenology: A Proposal (pdf)
Eugene Halton, Pragmatic E-Pistols (pdf)
Section II. Empowering the Margins of Society
Susan Haack, Pragmatism, Law, and Morality: The Lessons of Buck v. Bell (pdf)
Patricia Hill Collins, Piecing Together a Genealogical Puzzle:
In
Dear Kirsti et al.,
You mention the duck-rabbit image, and the concern Wittgenstein
gave to it. Another missing link between Peirce and Wittgenstein perhaps: the
duck-rabbit illusion was first noted in the context of perception in 1899 by
Joseph Jastrow, who had earlier coauthored th
Dear Terry,
I would think Hawking remains a Spectator rather than a participant.
Participants don't seek to escape their home as a way to solve their problems,
yet that is what Hawking advocates.
And he is clearly an advocate of "spaciness" over "earthiness," to use
the distin
David Lavery proposed in his book, Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space
Age, what in my view is a deeper understanding of the real two cultures:
"spaciness" and "earthiness;" those who want to escape the earth, literally
through space travel or through artificial augmentation and transfo
Ben Udell asked: "...So, my question, which I find I have trouble
posing clearly, is, granting that IA involves an extension of mind in its
abilities/competences as well as its cognitions, does it much extend volition
and feeling (including emotion)?"
In my view it clearly does,
Dear Kirsti,
Welcome back to the list. I'm sorry to hear about your health setback
and hope you are now feeling better. Your timing is absolutely serendipitously
beautiful for me, as I was literally just about to search out your email
address in the next hour, for an email I began to wr
Dear Vinicius,
So would it be fair to say that this is a.goal directed
system?
Dryly,
Gene
(thought I had sent this to list on last email, saw it was other group)
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>From Jerry: "Gene: What is the status of representation in the social
>sciences? Is it either prescinding or abstracting? Or what?"
Dear Jerry,
I think it is fair to say that the social sciences are dominated by
theories of conventional representation and signification. Significati
Dear Stephen,
In support of what you say concerning that we are all a spectrum,
including less than admirable things as well as admirable things, let me quote
something I find admirable from near the beginning of the very same letter of
1908, where Peirce says:
"Unless t
Dear Stephen et al.,
But what about this, a darker side of Peirce from a letter to Lady
Welby of December 28, 1908. Though against English liberalism (update to
today's "neoliberalism") as futile rationalism, Peirce's alternative is not a
more inclusive democracy, but one in which p
Here is something I wrote earlier this week on centralized power that relates
at another angle:
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/09/the-megapower-elite/
Gene
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9/28/11
My apologies: Some uncensored thinking out loud follows.
Joe's remarks clarify the scarifying effects of the authoritarianism of
reputation in academic and scientific life, and show how the reality of
communicative qualities such as sincerity and earnestness are necessary for
Dear Sally,
The Nubiola article mentioned by Michael DeLaurentis is: Nubiola,
Jaime. 1996. "Scholarship on the Relations between Ludwig Wittgenstein and
Charles S. Peirce." Proceedings of the III Symposium on History of Logic,
edited by I. Angelelli and M. Cerezo. Berlin: Gruyter. Re
Cheers,
Gene
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Re Aristotle, I doubt that
Gene
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Dear Drake,
You make it seem as though the meaning of Aristotle could not grow,
just because Aristotle the man happened to be dead. That is the curious view of
materialism, and legacy of Cartesianism, with its dualism of mind and body.
But consider that if pragmatic meaning is
Dear Rafe,
Yes, there are many similarities to be sure. But one problem in saying
there is a parallel "conjectural turn" is that Peirce actually did develop a
logic of conjecture, that is, abduction, whereas Popper, whose book Logik der
Forschung was strangely translated into English as
Ben Udell: "Regarding Peirce on singular versus individual, the distinction
that he made (at least sometimes) was that which is in one place and time (a
singular), and that which is in only one place at a time (an individual). In
that sense, we are individuals but not singulars... But the singul
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