Date: 16 Apr 96 16:40:31 PDT
From: William.Peck-AT-directory.Reed.EDU (William Peck)
Subject: Re: HAB: Pragmatism


greetings -
j compton put the comparison between pragmatists and Hab very cogently.  I have
a shorter response: A pragmatist is a philosopher who thinks that practice is
prior to theory.  = Hab.?  well . . . Erkenntnis und Interesse pretty clearly
took this sort of line, didn't it?  Or were the three forms of knowledge or
science not ranked?  As for the later work, i think here also Hab wrote as a
pragmatist - sort of:  he has tried to blur the line between theory and
practice.  Since it's of course social theory and practice that are at issue,
one might say that he tries to conflate epistemology (and phil of science) and
sociology of knowledge.  So did Dewey, no?  and Rorty.  and Karl Mannheim, and
the Edinburgh group...

Bill Peck
Reed C