File spoon-archives/marxism-theory.archive/marxism-theory_1997/marxism-theory.9711, message 39


Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:23:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: MT: re:tv...



Hintikka and von Wright are well known here. We nearly hired him at OSU
when I was there, but he went to Florida State, I think, instead. 

--jks

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Jukka Laari wrote:

> Your welcome , if it clarified anything. 
> 
> > Ah. Thanks for the clarification. Has any of the empiricism stuck, as much
> > has here the US and the UK? What about neopragmatism?
> 
> Empiricism, I guess, is still around but a minority movement. Formal 
> (both linguistic and mathematical) logic and phil of science were the 
> dominant areas after WW2 (Kaila, von Wright, Stenius, Hintikka, 
> Niiniluoto etc; you'll find those names in phil encyclopaedias) and 
> as far as there are strong influences of them, there is some 
> empiricism in Finnish phil. alive. But for historical reasons 
> (age-old academic relations esp. to central Europe) empiricism isn't 
> deep-rooted in local culture, after all the 'national philosopher' 
> J.V. Snellman was hegelian (lived in 19th century). 
> 
> About neopragmatism I don't know a thing. 
> 
> Jukka




   

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