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From: MSPRINKER-AT-ccmail.sunysb.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 10:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Does Philosophy of Science Precede Philosophy of Knowledge?



               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 117777

                                            Michael Sprinker
                                            Professor of English & Comp Lit
                                            Comparative Studies
                                            516 632-9634
                                            04-Jul-1996 10:39am EDT
FROM:  MSPRINKER
TO:    hans despain                         ( _owner-bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU )
 
Subject: Re: Does Philosophy of Science Precede Philosophy of Knowledge?

Again, if I may.  My sense in talking RB over the years is that
his original impulse, perhaps difficult to detect from RTS
above all, was political:  he was involved in left student
politics when a student at Oxford, and his philosophy of
science was initially--and would seem still to be, if RR
is any guide--motivated by a desire to enlist scientific
work in the cause of human emancipation, RB's way of saying
communism, I believe.

So, I wouldn't exactly call his hooking his project up
with social philosophy and historical epistemology pragmatist.
A clarifying text for me has always been (it's the first thing
of his I ever read), the essay on Feyerabend and Bachelard,
with its frank invocation of Lenin.

Michael Sprinker




   

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