Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wilson: science and religion are incompatible

This schizophrenia is a big problem for India; it may even be worse there than here. I amscheduled to review Meera Nanda's latest book, THE WRONGS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT, in which she documents this schizophrenia in one of her essays. In another she compares secularism in India and the USA. N

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wilson: science and religion are incompatible

y: none of them have any conception of social science, let alone historical materialism, and at the end of the day, they are intellectually bankrupt even though they stand for some of the good things. -Original Message- From: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Nov 17, 2005

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic

- From: Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Nov 17, 2005 5:11 PM To: 'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired' Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic CB: I apologize for "smart" remarks

[Marxism-Thaxis] 'one science'? -- my writings

://www.autodidactproject.org/guidlebn.html See the entries indented under: 2003 Reading Review by Ralph Dumain I borrow a lot from other people, but I also believe I'm doing something original. I was going to do a published dialogue with Loren Goldner on science, never found the time to complete it. We b

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic online

A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, by Georg Lukács; translated by Esther Leslie, with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj Zizek. London; New York: Verso, 2000. 182 pp. (Lukacs' ms: pp. 45-149.) II. Dialectic of Nature 2. Simple and hi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic online

I don't understand your comparison. First, Lukacs says absolutely nothing about the dialectic of nature in se beyond the quote I gave. So what he really thinks it is and how it compares to the dialectic of scientific & technical activity is a complete mystery. Secondly, the Ilyenkov quote is s

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sidney Hook, Marx and Feuerbach

from 1936, when Hook was still a marxist: http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/hook/1936/04/feuerbach.htm ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cornforth

I don't have the patience to trace all these links. I have several of Cornforth's books, esp. those on pragmatism and positivism, and the book on Popper. I don't have and can't find a cheap copy of MARXISM AND THE LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY. I'm accepting donations. That fellow in Eastern Europe

[Marxism-Thaxis] Maurice Cornforth on logical empiricism

I have begun a running commentary on my marxistphilosophy list on this book: Reisch, George. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press, April 2005. It's amazing that there is nothing by Maurice Cornforth on the web. In conjunction with the above-mentioned r

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

There is an earlier posting of an extensive article on Du Bois' intellectual background--you were the one who posted it, maybe? This is very useful info. There is a lot more info on this sort of thing published, since, circa 1990, including considerations of DuBois; relation to Hegel. Just a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

ch in coming up with constructive ideas. You can see that for example in Cornforth's works. The criticisms of positivism and pragmatism are incisive, but the positive exposition of diamat is horrendous. -Original Message- From: andie nachgeborenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

Don't you think James's anti-imperialism was animated by his anti-modernism? You know, small is beautiful and all that? Interesting irony. Eastman of course was adamantly opposed to dialectical materialism, Hegel, etc. But he was not terribly theoretically or philosophically sophisticated, if

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

Yes, you are correct about Engels' assertion. The question, remains, though, was diamat used in productive or counterproductive ways, in consonance with or contrary to Engels' prescription, on the part of his successors? Was Engels consistent himself in his various writings? We can examine th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Is Professor Haldane's Account of Evolution Dialectical?Professor Haldane Replies

A. P. LERNER succeeds in criticizing the kind of crap that passes for dialectics of nature in the Marxist literature. A study of the arguments of Marxist scientists in the 1930s would be historically profitable, if one has the patience to review the literature. I have quite a bit of it myself.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Haldane on metaphysics

Haldane himself isn't a masterpiece of clear exposition here. Modern science put becoming on the agenda, and that, together with the fact of the social revolution of modernity (capitalism), necessitated a change in the concerns of ontology. Scientific theories de facto knocked the traditional

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Logical Empiricism (reformatted)

JKS expressed himself rather badly for a professional philosopher, esp. quoting Rorty, but Charles isn't making this any easier. One big terminological point: the word 'metaphysics' has plural core meanings, not to mention the way Engels mucked up the word by his usage of it. The objectionable

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Logical Empiricism (reformatted)

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 9, 2005 6:57 PM To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Logical Empiricism (reformatted) On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:01:01 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JKS expressed himself rather badly for a professional phi

[Marxism-Thaxis] end of philosophy? (1) -- Adorno

"Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed." -- Theodor W. Adorno, NEGATIVE DIALECTICS, translated by E.B. Ashton (New York: The Seabury Press, 1973), p. 3. Adorno's statement is packed with bitter irony. Adorno pursues the logic of Marx in hi

[Marxism-Thaxis] end of philosophy? (2) -- Marx

"The emancipation of the German is the emancipation of man. The head of this emancipation is philosophy, its heart the proletariat. Philosophy cannot realize itself without the transcendence [Aufhebung] of the proletariat, and the proletariat cannot transcend itself without the realization [Ve

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] end of philosophy? (2) -- Marx

At 07:10 AM 12/10/2005 -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote: So far as this goes I don't have much disagreement if any. Marx thought that his turn away from Hegelian philosophy. which he regardrd as the pinnacle of philosophy up to that point, was the natural next step, Hegelian philosophy having acc

[Marxism-Thaxis] VJ McGill on contradiction

Some of you may remember V.J. McGill as a Marxist philosopher of the '30s and '40s, inter alia an editor of PHILOSOPHY FOR THE FUTURE. I've come across an article of his, haven't read it yet: Concerning the Laws of Contradiction and Excluded Middle http://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/mcgill_c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Again on the Stalin era

I remember this jackass Grover Furr well. You must be a first-class imbecile to defecate this excrement into this discussion list. At 07:05 PM 12/11/2005 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! Comrade Stalin's battle until death is always presented by the degenerate bourgeoisie and their

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Richard Pryor

This is meaningless verbiage. Yes, Pryor is a historically important, in a sense, even pivotal cultural figure in American history. But this is pure hype and bullshit and has no analytical content. Are you a fucking moron? At 07:24 PM 12/11/2005 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .aol.com/ente

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] end of philosophy ? (2)

But wait! Either I'm not remembering my own post correctly or you're mixing up my arguments. BTW, Engels says something even more forceful: "The real unity of the world consists in its materiality, and this is proved not by a few juggled phrases, but by a long and wearisome development of phi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Logical Empiricism (reformatted)

I'm rather pressed for time now, so just a few sentences. But as coincidence would have it, Riesch's HOW THE COLD WAR TRANSFORMED PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE provides excellent historical examples of the problem at hand. It was not the case that all Marxists or even all Communist Party intellectuals

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Logical Empiricism (reformatted)

Again, briefly. See below. When I have time to write about the Reisch book, I'll have more to say. -Original Message- From: Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 12, 2005 3:05 PM To: 'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lukacs: The Philosopher and the Politician

The Philosopher and the Politician By Georg Lukacs It is rare for one person to be at the same time theoretician and politician. In Marx's opinion, ideology is needed, first, to make social conflicts conscious, and, second, to serve in the struggle for their resolution. With minor reservation

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic reviewed

Issue 89 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Published Winter 2000 Copyright © International Socialism A comment on Tailism and the Dialectic MARK O'BRIEN http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj89/obrien.htm This is the best review I've seen to date.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: [marxistphilosophy] A People's History of Science

I haven't registered as a user of NYT, so I haven't seen the review yet. How did Conner get a review in the Times? Isn't he a Trot? I shudder to think what I'm in for. The very title of the book sounds stupid. At 02:47 PM 12/18/2005 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: Read Jonathon's NY Times re

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: A People's History of Science

why would a Trot even use it, unless of course, it's really a Romantic notion as I suspect it to be? At 07:19 PM 12/18/2005 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:47:40 -0500 Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't registered as a user of NYT, so I hav

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank (w/ ref to Lenin)

I've read over 200 pages of George Reisch's HOW THE COLD WAR TRANSFORMED PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. There is a lot of fascinating material in it, much new to me. I've just read the chapter on how Frank carried on after Neurath's death, noting his public interventions in explaining philosophical, s

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

I put the word out myself at the stroke of midnight. You'd be surprised how many people appreciate it. If we try hard enough, we might even supplant Festivus. I wonder what Newton thought of having to share his birthday with Hanukkah. It's nice to know there are alternatives. Back in Buffalo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chris Sciabarra on Marx (for the International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology)

While it's not exactly horrible, there is something about this encyclopedia article that bugs the hell out of me. To begin with: (1) It's too philosophical, if you know what I mean. (2) The bare citation of Marx's 11th thesis makes me break out in hives. (3) It quotes too many extraneous and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re: [marxistphilosophy] Philipp Frank on diamat

I've not seen an indication in Reisch that Frank ever revised his view, and he lived past the McCarthy era, I believe. Perhaps he merely forgot about what he had written. But yeah, this would account for his superficial engagement with the most superficial of Stalinist philosophy. Obviously,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re: [marxistphilosophy] Philipp Frank on diamat

Actually, I didn't know this about Neurath. It's not a good sign. I also need to know more about Neurath's relation to Austrian socialist politics. There are only a few lines in RED VIENNA, suggesting these people were too much anal retentive control freaks even for Neurath. I'm editing cha

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

A third chapter of Frank's MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY is now on my web site: CHAPTER 5: is there a trend today toward idealism in physics? http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank05.html Here there is a detailed critique of the idealist mystification of physics, among whos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

As to extrascientific orientations that may have affected Heisenberg, Paul Forman had a rather bold thesis: Paul Forman. "Weimar Culture, Causality and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment," published in Historical

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics

Ooops, one of my sentences is rather awkward At 08:24 AM 1/8/2006 -0500, Ralph Dumain wrote: As Frank documents in his book, Heisenberg shared the same reactionary idealist views as other prominent physicists such as James Jeans and Arthur Eddington. Heisenberg never quite claimed that the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on mathematics & mechanics

Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank Chapter 6: Mechanical "Explanation" or Mathematical Description? http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank06.html Latest installment. Most interesting here is the relationship between mathematics and physical explanation in the his

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Forman and his critics

I don't know what to make of this weird stuff: Whig History of Science http://www.ivorcatt.com/3802.htm As far as I can tell, Forman still has a position at the Smithsonian: http://americanhistory2.si.edu/about/staff.cfm?key=12&staffkey=320 I have a deep suspicion of all sociology of science.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Forman and postmodernism

My suspicions are becoming confirmed: In postmodernity the two cultures are one -- and many Paul Forman http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/FormanThinkPiece.html To me, this is yet another symptom of the disintegrating research programme of bourgeois liberalism. In fact, the war between the post

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: [hegel-marx] For Erich (A quote! oh no!)

The confused leading the confused . . . how sad. First!--see: Marx & Engels on the Science of History http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/marxsci2.html Neither Marx nor Engels were social constructionists, nor was their 'sociology' so shallow as the undialectical sociology of science that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism Leninism lives

By riffraff I meant the Soviet philosophers and theoreticians who followed Lenin, not only the less supple thinkers of Lenin's generation (including the ex-Menshevik Deborin), but especially the younger breed that supplanted their elders as Stalinism was consolidated. The records of Haldane an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics again

A fourth chapter of Frank's MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY is now on my web site: CHAPTER 8: philosophic misinterpretations of the quantum theory http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank08.html As I mentioned before, Chapter 8 deals with the mystification of quantum theory, p

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: agnosticism, materialism, atheism

I re-read this material in recent months. I cited from this and other works on my web page containing comparable remarks: Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis: Selected Quotations http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/marx-skeptic.html Most of these passages are very well-known, but check out

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on the mystification of physics again

This chapter and others does indeed confirm Frank's interest in a united front against the common right-wing enemy. As I did not digitize the chapters in their original order, one may get a different impression: i.e., Frank's objections to Soviet philosophy and dialectical materialism only app

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Unknowable thing-in-itself

Engels' characterization of 'shamefaced' belongs generically to a tendency, most pronounced among English empiricists, to shrink from the ultimate conclusions to be drawn from the direction set in motion, as Engels delineates in recently discussed writings. "Materialism' in this context can on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Unknowable thing-in-itself

Coincidentally, there's a group here in DC that wants to organize an ad hoc study group on Kant's CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON and is seeking advice. Perhaps I could solicit your input. Otherwise, the problem with the schooling in Marxism-Leninism we see here is two-fold: (1) social conditioning

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Correction: _Unknowable_ thing-in-itself

At 02:43 PM 1/10/2006 -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote: Problems, then: What's "material" mean? Physical, what physics, biology, etc. say there is? What if, as seems to be the case, our best science tells us that important features of the world are mind-dependent in a deep way -- that is where q

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Further focus on Engels definition of materialism

This is truly remarkable puzzlement for a professional philosopher. At 08:22 AM 1/11/2006 -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote: Well, "spirit" and "nature" are not transparent terms either, not is "primacy," so it's not much help to say that idealists make spirit primary to nature and materialists v

[Marxism-Thaxis] we canteloupe, they won't lettuce

Edgar Allan Poe wrote philosophical satires about Cant, Aries Tottle, deduction, induction, and other topics. But seriously, folks, we need to disaggregate a general discussion of the characteristics of materialism from the specific case of Kant. I barely have time to read through fresh batch

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank on Science Teaching and the Humanities

The recent court decision sharply rejecting any legitimacy for the teaching of creationism (now retooled as 'intelligent design') in the science curriculum raises the question of the possible place of philosophy of science in general education. Coincidentally, I've been plowing through chapter

[Marxism-Thaxis] Phillip Frank biblio

I've added the bibliography of the original publication of the essays contained in Frank's MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY to my contents page: http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank00.html#bib Most of them were originally published in the 1930s or 1940s. I'm thinking of s

[Marxism-Thaxis] MARTIN LUTHER KING'S HEGELIANISM

ource: "The unseen harmony is stronger than the seen." (Ralph Dumain, originally composed 2 February 1994) ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ON CULTURAL HYBRIDITY, HEGEL, IDENTITY

Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968) ON AFRO-AMERICAN IDENTITY -- HEGEL AND HYBRIDITY "Every man must ultimately confront the question, 'Who am I?' and seek to answer it honestly. One of the first principles of personal adjustment is the principle of self-acceptance. The

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: MLK & Hegel

One might also criticize MLK's Hegel scholarship, which is available online. Quotations are not meant to be taken as gospel, but rather starting points for further investigation, or at the very least curiosa of intellectual and social history. How many people even know about these statements

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Phillip Frank & Stevie Wonder

I've been out of the loop, but a friend told me how good this was a week or two ago, and I only bought it Saturday night. I've missed an album or two you named, but I still think INNERVISIONS is the most inspired. At 01:36 AM 1/16/2006 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I'm also listening to

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] How many souls do Black Folk have ?

I immediately thought of the Du Bois double consciousness connection myself. The only thing different about King's statement was emphasizing the 'African' and not just the "Negro' side of the duality. I actually can't recall how current the emphasis was on an 'African' dimension of Negro Amer

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] How many souls do Black Folk have? -This is crazy

Your points are well taken. Taken literally, the concept of two racial souls is pure BS, but I doubt Charles is that stupid. My guess is that this is a metaphor that very imprecisely suggests the contradictory condition of black Americans and the psychological negotiation of this territory, w

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Mary, mary

You guys obviously have a history I know nothing of, but I'm hoping this is the last I'll see of this form of discourse, emoticon notwithstanding. At 05:45 PM 1/16/2006 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now what nigga. :-) Waistline PS. For on lookers, pardon our form of discourse.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in dialectical materialism as an ontology independent of its political marxist ramificat

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

I thought similarly. What about Bhakar , before he became idealist ? Is that the way to spell it ? I was on a list. It sounded like sort of dialectical materialism to me, but the people interested in it didn't cop to that. There were a whole lot of people interested in it. CB Ralph Dumain Encyc

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Historical materialism

This Wikipedia article is quite remarkable, I think at first glance. It's the sort of material suitable for Marx Myths and Legends, to which it links. Especially noteworthy are the sections "Disclaimers" and "Historical materialism as doctrine." I'm sure there are many more marxist and quas

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] How many souls do Black Folk have ?

is this all about? He gave me the creeps. Not as creepy as that slick black neocon John McWhorter, but creepy nonetheless. What is the Manhattan Institute, anyway? At 06:40 PM 1/17/2006 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:21:31 -0500 Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Roy Bhaskar

At 05:52 PM 1/18/2006 +, Phil Walden wrote: One important idea of Bhaskar's was about what he called the intransitive and transitive dimensions of reality. This was akin to Althusser's idea of the real object and the thought object, but Bhaskar's version is better in my view because it is mo

RE: [Marxism-Thaxis] Roy Bhaskar

At 11:12 PM 1/18/2006 +, Phil Walden wrote: PW: Bhaskar defines the epistemic fallacy as the analysis or definition of statements about being in terms of statements about our knowledge (of being). For example, if somebody says that capitalism must give way to socialism because Hegelian-Marx

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Objective reality is

Going through old emails, not remembering which I've responded to. Comments below. At 04:02 PM 1/11/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: .. Lenin: "The Machians contemptuously shrug their shoulders at the “antiquated” views of the “dogmatists,” the materialists, who still cling to the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] objective reality: the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside our mind.

This is all good, with the addition of another quote from Lenin, that specifies that the reality outside our mind is given by sensation (the common ground of materialism and empiricism), not by a supersensible Platonic realm generating the imperfect material world. This is the differentiating

Re: spam: [Marxism-Thaxis] Feuerbach's idealism

I think this is quite an eloquent statement of where Feuerbach went wrong, and congruent with M & E's criticism of Feuerbach in the 1840s. At 10:37 AM 1/14/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Feuerbach feuerbach

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Domains of knowledge, particular spheres; levels of organization of reality; materialist dialectic

At 10:48 AM 1/14/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Engels gives an further explication of Hegelianism here. Frederick Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy Part 4: Marx marx

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology

Just a few remarks, below. At 09:55 AM 1/14/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: ___ SJG Archive SJG Archive Activism, Scientists and Sociobiology by David L. Hull .. The controv

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Feuerbach's idealism

nd, Marxist scholars prefer to repeat what Marx and Engle's said about Feuerbach. But if we read his poshomous published papers he goes a long way towards Marx - after having read the first volume of Capital. In an email dated Wed, 25 1 2006 4:52:35 pm GMT, Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Domains of knowledge, particular spheres; levels of organization of reality; materialist dialectic

Engels made a heroic effort to fulfill this historic need. He also makes an important point: that gaps in existing knowledge are filled in by pseudoscientific rubbish, as occurred in his time and also in ours. This insight needs to be applied and expanded. Because of gaps in knowledge, the m

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology

Yes, I think we're pretty much on the same page. I'm not up on anthropology, so I don't know to what extent cultural anthropology has integrated evolutionary theory into it, if at all. Or for that matter, to what degree cultural anthropology has integrated physical anthropology. I thought I

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology

006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Ralph Dumain : Yes, I think we're pretty much on the same page. I'm not up on anthropology, so I don't know to what extent cultural anthropology has integrated evolutionary theory into it, if at all. Or for that matter, to what degree cultural anth

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Thanks for this, I've added it to my Feuerbach bibliography: http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/feuerbib.html Also check out the entry on Feuerbach in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is outstanding, particularly the section on Feuerbach's later philosophy, apparently neglected u

Re: Externalism/Intrrnalism (Was: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology)

gnificant by, e.g., class interest. (This was the position I took myself in The Paradox of Ideology.) --- Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Internalism and externalism are standard concepts in > the sociology of > science. Perhaps andie could point us to key > reference

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology

Thanks for the elaboration. If I'm not mistaken, there's an ongoing debate on this book on the air pump on a Romanticist listserv. I haven't read the book, but from what I've read of its thesis, it looks very dubious to me. At 10:20 AM 1/26/2006 -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote: An interesti

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Re: Air Pump

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:32:00 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FW: [NASSR-L] Air Pump I've not read the book in question, but if its thesis is as stated here, then it is dubious indeed. The more general point of S&S as describe

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: FW: [NASSR-L] Air Pump

him. Within the context of our discussion, this book emphasizes just how long this issue has been pertinent in the west. Orsini's _Coleridge and German Idealism_ is very good. I haven't read the other two books you asked about. It seems like Donald Reiman recently mentioned a book of his

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [NASSR-L] Air Pump

Read THE POLITICS OF MODERNISM by Raymond Williams. At 11:04 AM 1/27/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: I don't have an extensive analysis or thought through fully the relationship between Romantic aesthetics and politics, but it often occurs to me that, especially in the modern era, artists, rom

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dennett's Breaking the Spell

I suspect this is bullshit, but what do you think? Breaking the Spell : Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003472X/qid=1138785320/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-9455841-5053647?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank: historical background

Phillip Frank's 52-page introduction to his book MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY (1949) is now on my web site: Introduction - Historical Background http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank001.html Frank gives a historical overview of key moments in the philosophy of science of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cool_African_philosophy

The disputes on the talk page for this entry are not very productive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cool_%28African_philosophy%29 I can see "cool" in the black American cultural context, but to predicate an African philosophy of which it is a descendant smacks of crackpot afrocentric nonse

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philipp Frank: chapter 16

Now on my web site: Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank Chapter 16: The Place of Logic and Metaphysics in the Advancement of Modern Science http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank16.html This is Frank's latest thinking (as of 1947) on the meaning of metaphysics.

[Marxism-Thaxis] science wars follow-up

Higher Superstition Revisited: an interview with Norman Levitt http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=7 Not much content, but no smoking guns either. Levitt says nothing about the 'academic left' here. Though I've used that phrase myself for certain purposes, I don't conside

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: anti-dialectics

From: "rosa lichtenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:12:09 - Comrade, Thank you for posting so much useful material at your site. You might like to visit my site, where you will find I challenge traditional Marxist Philosophy, but not Hi

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dennett on religion & eovlution

Daniel Dennett is coming to town to do a book spiel on Valentine's Day, I suppose for the losers with nothing better to do. His new book is: "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003472X/qid=1139811589/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-9455841-5053

[Marxism-Thaxis] Maurice Cornforth: Science and Evaluation

New on my web site: Science and Evaluation by Maurice Cornforth http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth2.html SOURCE: Cornforth, Maurice. Communism and Human Values (New York: International Publishers, 1972), Chapter 8, pp. 41-47. MC, 1971: "This essay on Communism and Human Values

[Marxism-Thaxis] secular humanism or pseudoscience?

I've seen Michael Shermer on PBS and encountered his name in some other arenas. I don't think he is terribly intelligent, though he does play some role in promoting secular humanist ideas. Here's an example of my dislike of sociobiological "explanations" of human belief systems, esp. those usi

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dewey on racism?

I received this query, which I am unable to answer: I'd be grateful if you'd point me to info/material about any work/stance/position/activitity/writings of John Dewey (and the pragmatists in general) on the 'Negro question' and civil rights in general (in the US of course). Can anyone help? _

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sociobiology satire

Per the request of one of my readers: I've put up an article from the defunct SCIENCE AND NATURE, a journal of Marxist philosophy of science: AN EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION OF THE ENGLISH SONNET by Isadore Nabi http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/sn-nabi1.html I missed Dennett last night. I

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Scientists and Humanists

Jim Rovira's argument here is completely incoherent, unless his objections to S. Willett's post, which I'll address separately. A few points to straighten out this mess: (1) I don't know who Daniel McDermott is. There's a philosopher Daniel Dennett, who indeed supports atheism and Darwinism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Blumberg

I would prefer that someone with ready access to an academic library and cheap photocopying find this article for us. At 11:26 AM 2/20/2006 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: Perhaps Ralph could find for us, Blumberg's article, "Sciene and Dialectics: A Preface to a Re-examination," Science & Society

Re: [marxistphilosophy] Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Blumberg

Nope, I can't do this. maybe somebody with money or academic library privileges. What, am I everyone's work horse? At 11:38 AM 2/20/2006 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: As long as we are on this subject, perhaps Ralph can make available to us a couple of other articles including William Gruen's

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] People's History of Science

When I was first apprised of this web site, I read a few chapters, but did not make it to the text quoted My initial impression was that the author was a victim of an extremely sectarian milieu and had to go through quite an ordeal digging herself out of it. The marks of this sectarianism are

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] People's History of Science

I don't know how you construct your web pages, but I am unable to fully access this page using Internet Explorer. My computer keeps freezing up. After numerous attempts I have been able to get to the beginning of note 18. Yet I can access presumably much larger size files on other sites. I

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] People's History of Science

Actually, the argument is framed in an entirely sectarian context, based on the experience of Trotskyism. Some examples from your home page: (1) Dialectical Materialism (DM) has been the official philosophy of active revolutionary socialists for over a hundred years. During that time, the mo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] People's History of Science

Van Heijenoort argues that Engels was backwards with respect to the mathematics of his time, and also narrow-minded and provincial with respect to the history of science (anti-English prejudice) coupled with an uncritical veneration of Marx. However, there are two important circumstantial fact

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] People's History of Science

This is the core of the problem. "Active Marxists" are irrevelant. Even though only a teeny weeny portion of the literate public is interested in this subject matter, the idea that one addresses only one's comrades already condemns one to hopeless provincialism. You have no qualms about impo

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