What a wonderful idea! A book I would recommend is Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. A magnificent introduction to the Balkans, Orthodoxy, the...
The November issue of FIRST THINGS includes a lengthy review of Stanley Fish's HOW MILTON WORKS (Harvard U Press). The review is by the thoughtful scholar...
I forgot to mention that the article is free on line at:http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0111/articles/oakes.html fjw ... Fish's HOW MILTON WORKS (Harvard...
Voegelin makes a decent point about Milton--as does Fish--but both are overreacting against the Whig view of Milton. In the end, Fish and Voegelin's reading is...
Dear all and sundry.... Any recommendations for a philosophy of science book for high school students. They are all extremely bright and are interested in the ...
Dan Knaus's message was most reassuring to me, because I was beginning to feel as though I were alone on this list. But my wife reminded me that most list...
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chip sills
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Jan 8, 2002 9:16 pm
If you can supply some further background about the realism-nominalism debate, (R. Weaver is great for tracing the consequences of the nominalist turn, but has...
Mr. Wagner-- You may find some good reading in the new edition of the Cambridge Companion to Milton. Summarizing from John Shawcross' essay in the old edition,...
Dan Knauss has been more than generous with his time and knowledge! I must thank him on the list! Fritz Wagner...
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 9, 2002 11:12 pm
... Barret, I taught "Philosophy of Science" for years. There are no good books. I see the field as a field that should have never been. In the early part of...
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Harter, Nathan W.
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Jan 9, 2002 11:42 pm
The question was raised (and answered) whether there can be such a thing as a philosophy of science. I'd like to understand the assertion that there cannot. ...
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M.W. Poirier
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Jan 10, 2002 3:01 am
For high school students, I'm not sure that there is anything available worth reading. But for others, I'd suggest the writings of Michael Polanyi. His work...
Each is a story ... This is exactly which I am trying to find a way around. I have had little luck in finding materials from either philosophy of science or...
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 10, 2002 4:21 am
... Mr. Harter, Phew! What an email! And I promised myself never to get drawn in to email discussions again. Please understand that I hate the medium. If it ...
When I was young, I read Stephen Toulmin's AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. He has written many things on the problems of science and it occurred...
As near as I can tell, Voegelin's discussion of absolute space and the origins of scientism are quite competent. It seems to me that a difficulty in the...
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 11, 2002 3:44 pm
... Barret, I am not sure whether the evforum is where you should be looking. However, it may be, because so many Physics books are down on philosophy (they...
Thanks to Martin Pagnan and Rhydon Jackson for helpful commentaries on philosophy and the natural sciences! Fritz Wagner...
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G Ellis Sandoz
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Jan 11, 2002 4:28 pm
The "Scientism" article (1948) as reprinted in CW 10 is useful for EV's take on phil of science and the problems of distinguishing a phenomenological from a...
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G Ellis Sandoz
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Jan 11, 2002 5:05 pm
I neglected to say that the background for the 1948 article is in the 1936 book THE AUTHORITARIAN STATE where Kelsen's pure theory of law is dissected in chap....
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 12, 2002 4:48 am
... Mr. Jackson, I am puzzled. I do not know what that means in the context: "there is no such thing as mere matter." Let me explain what I meant in my earlier...
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M.W. Poirier
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Jan 12, 2002 6:24 pm
Ellis Sandos wondered if Michael Polanyi's _Personal Knowledge: Towrads a Post-Criticsl Philosophy_ is still available in paperback. It is. I've been using it...
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:57:04 -0500 Martin Pagnan <mpagnan@...> ... For me it certainly did! And I'm enjoying the lectures. Dan Knauss Marquette...
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 13, 2002 2:37 pm
... Thank you very much. Maybe you can do me a favour that you did once before. Please inform Mr. Wagner off list that his email is again inaccessible to me...
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 13, 2002 2:41 pm
... That was kind of silly. I meant to send this email off list. Sorry....
I want to thank Mr. Pagnan for his expansion on his point that 'the scientist cares little for the logic of the mind.' I think I did misunderstand him....
One more direction that might be of interest to Mr. Dolph has occurred to me. If he wants to address technology in its role as science applied to science, or...
I must now UN recommend Stephen Toulmin's Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. I got it out and looked at it and, as Martin Pagnan might have put it,...
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FMasingill@...
Jan 16, 2002 6:22 pm
In browsing Barnes and Noble the other day, I came across a book by Abarham Joshua Heschel entitled _A Passion for Truth_. I suppose it would not be classed...
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Martin Pagnan
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Jan 16, 2002 7:46 pm
... "Lucas and Hodgson", you say. What kind of conclusion is that: That a "limit to speed ... is a happy and comforting implication of special relativity?"...
