Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:14:49 +0100 From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: BHA: Mainstream Philosophy of Science Hi Tobin, >Actually, my >sense is that "audience" is not really on his mind at all anymore. I don't think this is true. Some of his recent stuff is more accessible than anything else he's done - reasonably informal talks, and conversations with a poet/philosopher.... I think his intended audience nowadays basically is the potential global emancipation movement, most manifest in the movement for Social Justice etc (the anti-globalisation or anti-capitalist movement). Certainly not just professional philosophers! >Re "pluriverses", I was under the understanding that the theory of multiple >universes derives from the "Copenhagen" interpretation of quantum mechanics, >which is rife with positivist and irrealist assumptions. No? I don't think I said 'multiple universes', but if I did, please excuse; I've been doing things on the trot. I don't think Bhaskar uses the concept. I think we should distinguish it from the notion of 'a pluriverse', i.e. an irreducibly plural and stratified (and exponentially expanding) universe. Mervyn Tobin Nellhaus <nellhaus-AT-gis.net> writes >> I took Tobin's comment to mean that Bhaskar's message, hence his >> audience, has been perceived to be Left. True. > >Yes, and also that a good number of his early essays were published in >explicitly leftist journals (e.g. New Left Review, Radical Philosophy) or >written for socialist-oriented conferences. So he often sought specifically >leftist audiences. And even though I'm far from happy with FEW (sorry >Mervyn), it still upholds a connection between a philosophy of science and a >progressive political agenda. > >(I have less sense of who he feels is his audience today. Actually, my >sense is that "audience" is not really on his mind at all anymore. Which -- >if true -- has its drawbacks, but maybe allows him to pursue his ideas >wherever they might lead, and without worrying about what other philosophers >are saying. But I certainly could be mistaken.) > >Re "pluriverses", I was under the understanding that the theory of multiple >universes derives from the "Copenhagen" interpretation of quantum mechanics, >which is rife with positivist and irrealist assumptions. No? > >T. > >--- >Tobin Nellhaus >nellhaus-AT-mail.com >"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce > > > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- -- Mervyn Hartwig Editor, Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating 'Alethia') 13 Spenser Road Herne Hill London SE24 ONS United Kingdom Tel: 020 7 737 2892 Email: <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk> Subscription forms: http://www.criticalrealism.demon.co.uk/iacr/membership.html There is another world, but it is in this one. Paul Eluard --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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