Did Peirce suggest how experts in the "science of phenomenology" might be selected?
Historically, selection was done by birth, followed by a kind of anarchic status wrangling - like kids do in high school or adults do in corporations. The 10th C. novel, "Tale of Genji" exemplifies that process, with Prince Genji rising to the top of the Heian court as an expert in every kind of aesthetic practice: poetry, dancing, music, painting, and even perfumery. And overall, as we observe the results of this courtly behavior across cultures, whether in Benin, Kyoto, or Firenze, we might well conclude that the results were quite positive - i.e. beautiful rather than bizarre, which is the quality sought by contemporary institutions of art. But how can experts be selected in our modern world where status follows institutional resume rather than the direct personal regard of social peers? How can expertise be tested? When aesthetics finally recovers from its current fascination with interpretation, this is the question that it should be addressing .......................................................... Frances to William and others... In regard to the aesthetic beauty of an artistic work which property is sensed by a competent individual, and if this approach to the issue may be posed by a lurker in the wings, consider the Peircean pragmatist position on an expert doing the science of phenomenology by personally observing given phenomena and then expressing the feelings of whatever objective fleeting haze seems to be subjectively felt as posited by the given stuff. The expression of observation itself by the sole expert however is insufficient and inadequate to satisfy the pragmatist tenets of science. The expressions must be shared by some relevant collective community of similar experts who share such expressions of observations. It is this collection of expressions upon at least a tentative agreement that then goes to the scientific explanation and definition of the given phenomena. ____________________________________________________________ Weight Loss Program Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c?cp=1FBtylUBYcYQaFDuSWxeRAAAJz6c l_zTaptgNR5c8Mer1v9kAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEUgAAAAA=
