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Gary R - ah, that's better. I figured I had missed something.
Thanks.
Edwina
On Wed 31/05/17 6:58 PM , Gary Richmond gary.richm...@gmail.com
sent:
Edwina,
The list is of dogmas of science which Peirce did *not* adhere to.
Best,
Gary
Gary RichmondPhilosophy and Critical ThinkingCommunication
StudiesLaGuardia College of the City University of New YorkC 745718
482-5690
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
Gary R - you are saying that all but #9 of Sheldrake's axioms are
implicit or explicit in Peirce's work. I must be missing something
because I consider that
Axioms 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 - i.e., all but 3 are
non-Peircean views.
Edwina
On Wed 31/05/17 6:15 PM , Gary Richmond gary.richm...@gmail.com [2]
sent:
List,
As an addendum to my forwarded post, here are what Sheldrake claims
to be 10 dogmas of science.
1. Everything is essentially mechanical.
2. All matter is unconscious.
3. The total amount of matter and energy is conserved.
4. The laws of nature are fixed. They are the same today as they were
at the beginning, and they will stay the same forever.
5. Nature is purposeless, and evolution has no goal or direction.
6. All biological inheritance is material, carried in the genetic
material, DNA, and in other material structures.
7. Minds are inside heads and are nothing but the activities of
brains. When you look at a tree, the image of the tree you are seeing
is not “out there,” where it seems to be, but inside your brain.
8. Memories are stored as material traces in brains and are wiped out
at death.
9. Unexplained phenomena like telepathy are illusory.
10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that really works.
I had earlier written that dogma 9, seems not supported by Peirce's
writings. Although he thought that such matters as telepathy ought be
investigated, he seems not to have been convinced himself that such
phenomena had been experimentally validated.
Perhaps I should have added that while his general anti-materialist
tendencies as well as his views concerning the role of a kind of
Lamarckian inheritance would tend to support 6., that the second part
of that putative dogma is probably not what Sheldrake is emphasizing
here (not to mention that DNA research hadn't begun in Peirce's
time).
Best,
Gary R
Gary RichmondPhilosophy and Critical ThinkingCommunication
StudiesLaGuardia College of the City University of New YorkC 745718
482-5690 [3]
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gary Richmond wrote:
List,
It appears to me that many scientists--although not all by all
means--who have looked into it think that Rupert Sheldrake's
hypothesis of "morphic resonance" [4]http://www.sheldrake.org/
[5]research/morphic-resonanceis at very least unsupported by
experimental testing of it and, well, even a bit whacko. Sheldrake
would argue in part that much of this negative assessment is the
result of most scientists being intellectually bonded to materialism,
what he also calls 'philosophical materialism'.
Although several years ago I read some of his books and followed the
experiments then being made in an attempt to prove/disprove his
theory, I haven't much thought about it for some time now. When this
video was posted to the biosemiotics list, however, and intrigued by
the knowledge that this TED talk had been censored, I played the
video, watching it with some considerable interest.
For in it Sheldrake offers what he calls "ten dogmas of science" and
references Peirce, suggesting that Peirce's understanding of 'habit'
led Sheldrake to a sense that *this* notion, as Peirce conceived of
it, ought replace that of 'law' (and constants, etc.) in science,
Sheldrake seeing 'law' as an "anthropological metaphor" at best.
It seems to me that at least 9 of the "dogmas" he offers (although
not the 9th) are either implicit or explicit in Peirce's work.
But as mentioned, I have not followed Sheldrake's work for years;
when doing so I viewed his hypothesis as then not fully supported by
experimental testing of it--although he has argued that those tests
do in fact support his theory--so that I offer this short video as an
opportunity for us to consider (1) whether these 10 are indeed dogmas
of science, and (2) if listers think any of them concur with the
views of Peirce. (I think it would be unwise at this point to get
into a discussion of morphic resonance.)
Best,
Gary R
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From: Prisca Augustyn
Date: Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:56 PM
Subject: [biosemiotics:9235] Rupert Sheldrake TED Talk
To: "biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK
www.youtube.com [6] Re-uploaded as TED have decided to censor Rupert
and remove this video from the TEDx youtube channel. Follow this link
for TED's statement on the matter and Dr ...
Some of you may enjoy this (formerly banned) TED talk. Sheldrake
questions scientific dogma by foregrounding Peircean habit.
Prisca Augustyn Professor Department of Languages, Linguistics &
Comparative Literature Florida Atlantic University
Links:
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http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'tabor...@primus.ca\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
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http://webmail.primus.ca/javascript:top.opencompose(\'gary.richm...@gmail.com\',\'\',\'\',\'\')
[3] http://webmail.primus.ca/tel:(718)%20482-5690
[4] http://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance
[5] http://www.sheldrake.org/
[6] http://www.youtube.com
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