From: "Jamie Morgan" <jamie-AT-morganj58.fsnet.co.uk> Subject: BHA: Re: A Quick Question Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:55:42 +0100 Dear Jan, what did you mean by 'judgemental rationality' (analytically and morally)? Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Straathof" <janstr-AT-chan.nl> To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 1:42 AM Subject: BHA: A Quick Question > Ian, you asked: > > >I have a quick question relating to historical explanation. > >Following Wittgenstein, Arthur Danto said in the 1960s that > >we explain history only insofar as we have considered it under > >some verbal description. This seems to be some sort of conceptual > >relativism of the Quinean (again influenced by Wittgenstein) > >sort. > >What would Critical Realism say to this? > > A quick response. > > I think CR has no problem with conceptual relativism, which imo is > just a subspecies of epistemic relativism. The point is that a critical > realist contribution to historical explanation lies on the ontological > level, viz. the search for those "intransitive real" emergent structures > and generative mechanisms which act (through history, but quite) > independent of any verbal description of them. And further, with the > aid of the notion of judgemental rationality (analytically and morally), > we have possess of a tool which both drives hermeneutics and secures > the ongoing accumulation of knowledge. > > yours, > Jan > > > > > > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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