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Read more or reply <https://networks.h-net.org/node/25318/discussions/115817/whiggism-weinberg-and-historians> Proceedings Publication: International Workshop on the History of Chemistry 2015 Tokyo (IWHC 2015 Tokyo) <https://networks.h-net.org/node/25318/discussions/114369/proceedings-publication-international-workshop-history-chemistry> by Yoshiyuki Kikuchi <https://networks.h-net.org/users/yoshiyuki-kikuchi> Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the editors, it is my pleasure to inform you of the web publication of the proceedings of the International Workshop on the History of Chemistry, which was held on March 2-4, 2015 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. You can download the proceedings (as well as individual papers included in it) from the following website: http://kagakushi.org/iwhc2015/proceedings <http://kagakushi.org/iwhc2015/proceedings> The conference theme was the "Transformation of Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s." I hope many of you will find this volume interesting and stimulating. Sincerely, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi > On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Skagestad, Peter <peter_skages...@uml.edu> > wrote: > > I will add that Hilary was very helpful to me in my research when I was a > visiting fellow at Harvard forty years ago. > > Peter > From: CLARK GOBLE [cl...@lextek.com] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 9:21 PM > To: Peirce-L > Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Announcement of the passing of Hilary Putnam > > >> On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com >> <mailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> A life in reason was and is difficult. All of us, whether we are ignorant of >> philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than >> to think. What Hilary Putnam's life offers our troubled nation is, I think, >> a noble paradigm of a perpetual willingness to subject oneself to reason's >> critique. Our country, founded by lovers of argument, has become the >> plaything of rhetoricians and entertainers (characters that Plato knew all >> too well). On this day when we have lost one of the giants of our nation, >> let's think about that. > > It’s a sad passing. While Putnam’s form of neopragmatism wasn’t something I > ultimately embraced (although I liked it far more than Rorty’s) he had a way > of writing that always made me think. Even where he broke from Peirce such as > in thinking warranted assertability was something to primarily concerned with > he made me think a lot. I think he also deserves a lot of praise for helping > to bring attention to Peirce at a time when he really was relegated to > marginal status. Say what you will about Putnam’s positions, but he is a > great example of continued inquiry and thus the fundamental ethos of Peirce. > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm .
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