[lit-ideas] Re: Cutting No Ice
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:46:03 -0700
On Apr 10, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
> All this reference to historical stuff leads me to ask whether such material
> is
> of any relevance to philosophy. Isn't the soundness of philosophical (i.e.
> transcendental) analysis independent of historical, cultural and political
> influence?
>
> And if such a differentiation cannot be made, what happens to the
> transcendental
> distinction between the "context of discovery" and the "context of
> justification." And then there's the genetic fallacy ...
>
No idea, guv. But here's Professor Bigg's new theory: Prof Bigg told BBC News
the flux was at the "large end" but "not outstandingly large" for the first
60-70 years of the 20th Century.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26956746
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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