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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