Thanks Mike, Jeff… we appreciate your efforts
From: Mike Bergman [mailto:m...@mkbergman.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 2:01 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Transcribing Peirce Hi Jeff, Good to hear contributions are growing. Of course I will be happy to put the opportunity more front-and-center. I have not checked since I last left a message on the project, but a short Intro 101 to what you expect from the transcriptions would be really helpful to new recruits. I'd be happy to do a dedicated blog post on it as well. Are there some notable quotables about benefits/usefulness that I could reference? Also, is there a Robins listing or such for what goodies might remain in the untranscribed archives? Best, Mike On 3/14/2018 12:08 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard wrote: Hello Mike, List, I was searching online for some information about the Peirce manuscripts and came across your website with information about how those who are new to the scene might get started reading Peirce. At one point, you describe an ongoing transcription project that is using crowdsourcing, and I am supposing that you are referring to the SPIN project. As you probably know from the Peirce-L discussions, I am directing that effort with Terry Moore. In a footnote, you say the following: "I could post the links here, but the editors in charge of these transcription efforts are naturally desirous to maintain quality and keep participation manageable. However, if you are seriously into Peirce, it is quite informative to contribute to the process. If you think you’d like to contribute, do some searching on transcribe and Peirce to find these projects on your own, or contact me directly for sources." In fact, the SPIN project is now up and running in what might be called "phase one of implementation," and we'd like to encourage any and all who might be interested to join the transcription efforts. As such, we'd appreciate it if you (and others) would share links to the SPIN project through your webpage and any other contacts you might have. Having tried to recruit volunteers via the Peirce-L , conference presentations, and other online resources, the project has grown from a handful of participants to more than 45. Some volunteers have taken on the task of transcribing entire lectures or drafts of essays, and we are especially appreciative of their heroic efforts. Having said that, we'd love to have hundreds of volunteers joining in the efforts--even if some only transcribe a page or two. As they say, many hands make for light work. In order to get started, volunteers can read the transcription guidelines and then watch the short video that explains how to make transcriptions. The process is pretty simply for transcribing text, and there are more detailed instructions for those willing to take on the challenge of encoding logical formulas and diagrams. See the links in opening remarks for the SPIN collection on FromThePage: https://fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts <https://fromthepage.com/jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts> C. S. Peirce Manuscripts | FromThePage fromthepage.com C. S. Peirce Manuscripts - collection overview. The goal of the Scalable Peirce Interpretation Network (SPIN) is to develop a model environment for distributed collaboration that can support an international network of researchers, students, and citizen scholars in cooperative efforts to encode and interpret handwritten manuscripts, including those of high complexity. As our testbed, we plan to use the "Logic Notebook" that Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of Pragmatism, kept as the seedbed and greenhouse for his ideas together with related sets of manuscripts in logic and semiotics. We are treating the pages in the MS 145 folder as a sandbox. Take the platform for a test run and play with the toolset. The enhanced set of LaTeX tools for encoding the algebraic formulas and graphical diagrams have been added, and a set of guidelines for making the encodings is ready to go. Here are links to Transcription Guidelines on the SPIN Project website, digital images of the Ma In the future, when we have sufficient support and funding, we plan to create an instance on Zooniverse. The directors of that large and ongoing project have agreed to let us use a project instance to recruit volunteers to the SPIN site. Given the fact that Zooniverse has over a million volunteers engaged in citizen science and scholarship, we see this as a significant opportunity to grow our volunteer base. We have partnered with a number of groups, including the PEP and the Transkribus/READ projects. As such, we are exploring innovative ways to support the transcription efforts of a large community of volunteers and are also looking at downstream uses of the transcriptions for the sake of assisting the editors of the PEP with their aims of creating a 30 volume set of Chronological Writings--and also support other editors and scholars who might have interests in specific texts or writings on specific topics. If you have any questions, let me know. Yours, Jeff Jeffrey Downard Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Northern Arizona University (o) 928 523-8354 _____ From: Mike Bergman <mailto:m...@mkbergman.com> <m...@mkbergman.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 10:24 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Aristotle and Peirce Hi Jon, Excellent quote; thanks, Jon. I had not seen (recalled?) it before, and it offers another example of Peirce's universal categories, plus is the clearest statement I have seen yet of Peirce's definition of nominalism v realism. Mike On 2/12/2018 11:00 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: List: As the chief culprit for the recent glut of messages--apparently I was the sender of more than one-third of the 200+ over the first 11 days of February--I offer my sincere apology, and my promise to try to temper my enthusiasm for the current discussion topics, or at least "pace myself" (as the saying goes) in responding. Please do not hesitate to contact me directly off-List if you think that I am getting out of hand again. I am replying in this thread only because I believe that the following excerpt provides a direct answer to Stephen R.'s question about whether Peirce classified Aristotle as a nominalist. CSP: Aristotle held that Matter and Form were the only elements of experience. But he had an obscure conception of what he calls entelechy, which I take to be a groping for the recognition of a third element which I find clearly in experience. Indeed it is by far the most overt of the three. It was this that caused Aristotle to overlook it ... Aristotle, so far as he is a nominalist, and he may, I think, be described as a nominalist with vague intimations of realism, endeavors to express the universe in terms of Matter and Form alone ... It may be remarked that if, as I hold, there are three categories, Form, Matter, and Entelechy, then there will naturally be seven schools of philosophy; that which recognizes Form alone, that which recognizes Form and Matter alone, that which recognizes Matter alone (these being the three kinds of nominalism); that which recognizes Matter and Entelechy alone; that which recognizes Entelechy alone (which seems to me what a perfectly consistent Hegelianism would be); that which recognizes Entelechy and Form alone (these last three being the kinds of imperfect realism); and finally the true philosophy which recognizes Form, Matter, and Entelechy. (NEM 4:294-295; c. 1903?, emphasis added) This is part of a lengthy passage where, as I have remarked in other recent threads, Peirce explicitly associated Form with 1ns (quality or suchness), Matter with 2ns (the subject of a fact), and Entelechy with 3ns (that which brings together Matter and Form; i.e., Signs). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Stephen C. Rose <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: 173. But fallibilism cannot be appreciated in anything like its true significancy until evolution has been considered. This is what the world has been most thinking of for the last forty years -- though old enough is the general idea itself. Aristotle's philosophy, that dominated the world for so many ages and still in great measure tyrannizes over the thoughts of butchers and bakers that never heard of him -- is but a metaphysical evolutionism. Peirce: CP 1.174 Cross-Ref:†† Interesting. Has anyone done a study of Peirce and Aristotle. In what did Peirce's alleged tyranny consist? This is in something I found in an old book I have but it is also in CP. Did classify Aristotle as a dualist or nominalist? Or more narrowly as here? amazon.com/author/stephenrose
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