Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:04:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: HAB: Habermas & meme theory


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Matthew meant to send this to the entire HAB list, I believe...

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From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com>
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Subject: Habermas & meme theory
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Dear List,

Re-reading Communication & the Evolution of Society recently I was given to 
consider the similarities between aspects of Habermas's theory of social 
evolution as a learning process and increasingly popular variants of memetic 
theory, as well as its older counterpart evolutionary epistemology. Habermas 
was certainly aware of Popper's work and perhaps Donald Campbell's work 
also. My question is are list members firstly aware of any explicit 
references to Dawkins in Habermas's writings, and, secondly, whether my 
linking of Habermas's theory of social evolution to the evolutionary 
epistemological ideas of Popper as well as Dawkin's meme theory holds any 
water?

Regards to all

Matthew Piscioneri
School of Philosophy
University of Tasmania


>From: Gary D <gedavis1-AT-yahoo.com>
>To: mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: HAB: Between Ethics and Norms
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:38:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Matthew:
>
>I highly recommend the first chapter of _Justification &
>Application_: "On the Pragmatic, the Ethical, and the Moral
>Employments of Practical Reason."
>
>Gary
>
>
>--- matthew piscioneri <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > Please, where does Habermas make explicit the ethical basis for
> > rule-following? What I am trying to get clear is the place in his
> > work for
> > the difference between the normative and the ethical.
> >
> > Is it too simplistic/inaccurate to maintain that for Habermas the
> > production
> > of norms is a social behaviour essential to the self reproduction
> > of the
> > human species, and it is from this connection to the reproduction
> > of the
> > species that the ethical basis of a normative structure is, in the
> > final
> > analysis, derivable?
> >
> > Regards to all,
> >
> > MattP
> >
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