File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2002/bhaskar.0210, message 15


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 ---

   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005