Thanks for mentioning this, Joe. You are absolutely right: I, first time around, didn’t think I’d find much of interest in a long paper on safety and hazard in South African mines. A closer, but not yet adequate look, overturned that superficial assessment: the Peirce summaries are great, and the scope of issues, covered at surprising depth, is impressive indeed. This is a keeper.
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My characterization of Arnold's paper "Safety and
the Logic of Hazard" is not adequate and, after going through it again --
very hurriedly but with a better focus of attention than the first time through
-- I realized that both his title and my brief characterization of it as
being an application of Peirce's Economy of Research hardly even begins to
suggest what it is really about. In fact, I don't know how to describe it
in such a way as to do justice to it, but I do want to say that I find the
range of things he is concerned with in it astonishing and extraordinarily exciting
and I will be reading it again and again at the pace which it deserves.
There is, for example a several page overview of Peirce's career and his
philosophy which is masterfully done, well worth reading for that alone, as can
also be said about his account of some of the principles of Peirce's pioneering
theory of economy of research. But what especially interested me is
a remarkable and lengthy discussion of the history of various and sometimes
competing and contradicting conceptions of culture, tradition, and custom that
have flourished at one time and another in the discourse of social theorists of
various sorts, this being presented within the contextual frame of Peirce's
categories of Quality, Actuality, and Representation which Arnold provides.
The paper as a whole is so rich conceptually, and done with such a light touch
and magisterial skill, that I can't imagine that there would be anyone in this
forum who would not find what Arnold is doing in this paper to be of unusual
interest for one reason or another. I would be very much interested
myself in other people's reactions to it. Here is the URL again: -----
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