This must be the document I downloaded earlier today. It was linked
from the Wikipedia article on the Vienna Circle, if I recall
correctly. It is rather confusing in its structure. Someone should
check the print source to see if the whole manifesto is here included.
I always remember this quot
Interesting. I wonder if I should put this or similar items into my
bibliography. This is a Marxist advocating the Popperian approach as
a way of circumventing doctrinal rigidification. Can you think of
other Marxists who have taken this road?
At 07:41 PM 4/1/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
>On
If Popper had been more scrupulous and less provincial, esp. given
what I'm told is a skepticism towards institutionalism, he could have
easily differentiated the intrinsic revisability of a theory vs. the
specific way it has resisted testing and improvement due to a
specific institutionalizati
Perhaps it is too harsh to ridicule someone who comes from a troubled
background, but to be honest, I think Alice Walker is more than a
little bit of an airhead. I've read plenty of crap from her just
like this. Much of what she writes is this sort of bathos undergirded
with New Agey vacuity.
This inbred and rather unintelligent leftist breastbeating reminds me
why I have quit so many groups. I wouldn't dignify this drivel with
the notion of "debate".
At 01:47 PM 4/1/2008, Charles Brown wrote:
>http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026094.html
>
>my "obsessive oppos
Obama's "exotic" life story did not prevent him from gaining the
respect and support of significant members of the elite. How this
happened is worthy of study. People are only now reminded of Obama's
"deviant" status due to the Rev. Wright flap, but neither Obama's
supporters nor his detracto
These leftist debates look like subcultural
masturbation to me. Excessive inbreeding is
another way to put it. It's important not to be
fooled but it's not so important to always have
to prove that you're not being fooled.
At 04:04 PM 4/1/2008, Charles Brown wrote:
>http://lists.econ.utah.edu/
Also worth of consideration are Piaget's discussions on the philosophy
of science (especially its turn to 'sociology of knowledge'
post-Kuhn). This article (which I managed to get online for free
somewhere, but I can now only find the abstract for) has been
influential in pushing forward a consider
I'm not impressed.
(1) OK, so if the demographics indicate that the
Obamamania is mostly generational (though the
Obamamaniacs I know are not spring chickens),
does this speak well for the kids?
(2) What Obama means racially according to
Joaquin is unconvincing and propagandistic. I don't bu
I agree with this assessment. When I talked to Obamamaniacs, all of
whom were white, ranging from dippy Unitarians to independentd and
moderate Republicans, I couldn't find any rational basis for their
support of Obama. The most rational response I got was from a white
female independent who
The VC didn't include Husserl in their manifesto, but I think he
represents an important alternative in this discussion, if we want to
reconcile 'human' and natural sciences.
See, for example,
http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/328
Husserl, Weber, Freud, and the Method of the Human
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:19:46 +0900 CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Popper at one time had wanted to join the Circle and was evidently
> very envious of the admiration Wittgenstein received from them
> (though
> by most accounts, Wittgenstein did not see himself as engaged in
> their
> scientif
> 1. Logical positivists/logical empiricists, like scientific realists,
> tend to reject Marxist approaches to social sciences because they
> largely reject social sciences>>
Having said that, let me back up and say that the translation of The
Scientific Conception of the World that I have now
Popper at one time had wanted to join the Circle and was evidently
very envious of the admiration Wittgenstein received from them (though
by most accounts, Wittgenstein did not see himself as engaged in their
scientific world view and did not encourage their acclaim of him).
Here is a nice summing
Well Obama's up from the ashes story just never sat very well with me.
Sure, it's a typical pattern of single moms of all races that they end
up working for the Ford Foundation in the 1960s. Geraldine Ferraro got
it so wrong. Obama is where he is because his mother was white and of
fairly privilege
>>The problem of the entire relationship between the physical sciences, the
human sciences and what is known as everyday common sense is one that needs
badly to be solved. Without a solution to it communism stands on weak and
unconvincing ground.>>
1. Logical positivists/logical empiricists, li
Lest We Forget: An open letter to my sisters who are brave.
By Alice Walker
http://www.theroot.com/id/45469
Some excerpts:
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early twenties
it
was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been
thrown off the land the
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-April/026157.html
The relentless and obsessive opposition to
Mike Friedman
This idea that Obama is "coopting the left" is totally meaningless. And
the idea that “program” – at least as a laundry list of issues -- will
forever be the dividing line
Joaquin addresses some fundamentals in the second half of this essay.
Charles
What's behind the heated exchanges on the cost of being Black?
Joaquin Bustelo
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026012.html
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obsessive opposition to Obama
Fred Feldman
Walter quotes the Militant:
A March 18 speech on race relations by Barack Obama
helped convince a broader layer of the U.S. ruling class that he is
competent to be president for the next four years. It also opened a
discussion on racism in the United Sta
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026094.html
my "obsessive opposition" to Obama
Dbachmozart
Joaquin Bustelo writes -
What makes Dbachmozart include in a comment about the speech,
"Somebo
Joaquin B comments
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-April/026153.html
Doug Henwood on Barack Obama
Joaquin Bustelo
Quite interesting to read this Left Business Observer article about Obama
that Louis pointed to. As a progressive/radical critique it is fairly
standard, and ha
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Obama.html
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Current youth predicted to have shorter life span ?
Charles
Americans living longer (until Alex, Celeste's Beatrice's generation--
they have a shorter life expectancy than we do),
^^^
How's that ?
For the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children
in America may hav
O's mother
A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path
By JANNY SCOTT
In the capsule version of the Barack Obama story, his mother is simply the
white woman from Kansas. The phrase comes coupled alliteratively to its
counterpart, the black father from Kenya. On the campaign trail, he has ca
I don't think it's in Ayer's book. I don't think it's available online in
English, although I have seen it online in German and in Hebrew.
Jim F.
-- Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can't find an English translation on the
web. But I could have sworn I've seen it in
print somewhere
I can't find an English translation on the
web. But I could have sworn I've seen it in
print somewhere else. Could it be in Ayer's anthology LOGICAL POSITIVISM?
At 08:56 PM 3/31/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote:
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>On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:36:44 +0100 "rasherrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
> > Interest
The mere association of "womanism" with theology
is sufficient to discredit it. I once heard a
radio interview in which Walker said she called
herself a womanist because she's a Southern
woman, which is also enough to cast suspicion on
her perspective. I wrote an unflattering blog
entry on th
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2005w00/msg7.htm
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2005w00/msg00027.htm
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2002-May/017655.html
Also see Ralph's Emergence Blog
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/emergence-blog-03.
I'm not sure why you think this is such a crucial issue at this
point. I don't know what ground communism stands on at this point
but it cannot stand on a pure logical relationship or a notion of
inevitability in a highly contingent world.
Much of the vagary in institutional Marxism--particula
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:36:44 +0100 "rasherrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Interesting!
>
> Are there available any English copies of The Scientific Conception
> of the
> World?
>
>
Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung. Der Wiener Kreis, 1929.
English translation The Scientific Conception of
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