Subject: BHA: Just a side note on Habermas
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:55:59 -0600
From: "Groff, Ruth" <ruth.groff-AT-marquette.edu>


Hi Howard,

I will get ahold of this new collection.  But from what you've posted I still think that you should be more cautious in the conclusions that you are drawing about Habermas and how close he may or may not come to a critical realist ontolgy combined with a correspondence theory of truth.  We can talk more about this.

Habermas and Putnam both are interesting in the way that they are situated between Kant and pragmatism.  Rorty, by contrast, is someone who wants the pragmatism without any of the Kant.  Don't forget that in saying that practical activity is intrinsically truth-seeking, Habermas is responding to all the people who say that it isn't.  This is a different debate that the one over how the concept is defined.

And Kant, too, thought that there was a "real" world.  I don't think that someone like Habermas has a problem dispensing with Hume; it's Kant who sets the boundary -- for Adorno too.

r.


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