From: "Amit" <amitr-AT-polisci.umn.edu>
Subject: BHA: Re: Bhaskar panel for NY conference
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:53:15 -0800


Dear Ruth Groff,

My name is Amit Ron.  I am a graduate student at the Political Science
Department at the University of Minnesota.  I have a paper that I would like
to present in the NY conference.  The paper is on a critical realist
interpretation of regression analysis.  In this paper I argue that although
regression analysis is explicated in political science textbooks in
empiricist terms, the actual way that political scientists  of practice this
method can be better explicated by critical realism.  The paper, however,
does not touch socialism in any direct way.  I know that a paper with a
similar title was presented in the last international conference.  The
spirit of my argument is similar to the one presented in this paper, but my
paper tries systematically to establish a realist interpretation of
regression analysis and to show that it can explicate the work of mainstream
political scientists.

Please let me know if you are interested in any further information.

Thanks.

Amit Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Groff <rgroff-AT-yorku.ca>
To: bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 5:41 AM
Subject: BHA: Bhaskar panel for NY conference


>Hi all,
>
>As the U.S.'ers, especially, may know, the annual Socialist Scholars
>Conference is coming up this April, in New York.  It seems that Bertell
>Ollman has asked Bhaskar to attend, and it also seems that I have wound up
>being the person who has been asked to see if a panel on Bhaskar's work can
>be organized.  And organized quickly.
>
>One as yet undecided variable is whether to have a panel no matter what, or
>to only have a panel if Bhaskar does decide to come [I guess Hillary (his
>wife) is planning to come, so there's some hope; international phone
numbers
>are flying fast and furious...]; in any case, it has to be decided by March
15.
>
>So the question is, would any of you like to be on a panel at a large,
>intellectual, though not primarily academic, gathering in NY in late April?
>I've got a paper on alethic truth and the truth tetrapolity, which I think
I
>can actually turn into comments for regular people, and which I'd be happy
>to present.  But one person does not make a panel!  Anyway, please let me
>know.  If people think that it's appropriate, I'm certainly open to us
doing
>some planning on the list, as well.
>
>Ruth
>
>
>
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