Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [Marxism] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

I am going to lay my cards on the table and say that I don't think there is any room in philosophy for theories and theses. So I get nervous and suspicious when the 'isms' come marching by. One that makes me particularly nervous is "Scientific Realism". The reason for that is that I think that hist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

Rosa, "Marxist" philosophy without theses ? Without theory ? CB http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm Theses On Feuerbach The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousn

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

That project was exemplified in Descartes' Meditations, and it laid two demands on any account of knowledge and the means to knowledge, demands that set the standard and defined the adequacy of any account. There had been urgent reasons for making those demands but the reasons were historical rathe

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

This is a commonplace analysis of Descartes & critique of the whole epistemological tradition that came out of this. However, the disavowal of scientific realism is childish. Speaking of childish, It's worth contemplating the symbiosis between Rosa's juvenile Wittgensteinianism and sectarianism

[Marxism-Thaxis] Auto Worker Strikes in China: What Did They Win?

Auto Worker Strikes in China: What Did They Win? Boy Luethje December 23, 2010 Labor Notes http://labornotes.org/2010/12/auto-worker-strikes-china-what-did-they-win Last summer's auto worker strikes in South China reverberated throughout the country and overseas. As workers in supplier compan

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > This is a commonplace analysis of Descartes & critique of the whole > epistemological tradition that came out of this. However, the disavowal > of scientific realism is childish. Speaking of childish, It's worth > contemplating the symbiosis

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

I was thinking of the philosophical backwardness prevalent in the Second International. I do like this quote from Plekhanov, however: Strictly speaking, "/partisan science/" is impossible, but, regrettably enough, the existence is highly possible of "/scientists" who are imbued with t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

And here we have to say that Newton was a lot clearer about the status of what he called "axioms" and "laws" of motion than were later generations who looked on them as universal, and perhaps providential, truths about the cosmos. It took Henri Poincaré's hard work and careful analysis to bring out

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

I tried checking the text at leninist.biz, but I found the Plekhanov volume impossible to navigate. I wish someone would make this correction for me, because I would like to use this quote. It looks like I already did some preliminary spadework, viz. . . . Neo-Kantianism, Its History, Influence

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:22:14 -0500 Ralph Dumain writes: > Itsworth > > contemplating the symbiosis between Rosa's juvenile > Wittgensteinianism > and sectarianism. He differs from Henry Ford in declaring that, not > > history, but all philosophy, is bunk. And if this doesn't show you >

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

Hasn't the British SWP been an advocate of Islamism? Furthermore, being caught in a struggle between inept arguments pro & con diamat--doesn't this drag us back to the 19th century? What progress is there is this? On 12/30/2010 11:30 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:22:14 -050

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

What's interesting about Plekhanov's "Cant Against Kant" is that in the process of refuting Bernstein's scapegoating of the dialectic, Plekhanov falters at the very moment he first cites/Engels/. If there were a philosophical root of the confusion, here's where it would be. It begins with the m

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:40:33 -0500 c b writes: > Rosa, > > "Marxist" philosophy without theses ? Without theory ? I think that claim has to be understood within the context of Wittgensteinian philosophy. For Wittgenstein the only genuine propositions are those about the external world since th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

It amazes me that this rubbish is considered the cornerstone of 20th century philosophy. From formalism to the censorship of thought. Ultrasophisticated juvenalia. I can see what Rosa--is Rosa really a she or really a Rosa or Lichtenstein?--sees in this. It prevents the self-reflection of a Bri

[Marxism-Thaxis] Plekhanov: materialism vs Neo-Kantianism etc. (2)

Plekhanov, Georgi. "Bernstein and Materialism " (July 1898), in /Selected Philosophical Works/, Vol. II (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 325-339. I am not versed in the relations among Spinoza, LaMettrie, the Encyclop