[lit-ideas] Re: Philosophers and Programming Languages
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:36:18 -0500
My Dad was a philosophy type (worked on his PhD until it became clear that
philosophy wouldn't pay the bills) and a programmer (started on the Eniac
doing line programming and kept going from there). I'll send this to him
for fun, but I think he'll be busy playing chess. I'm going next, directly
to the Plato & Turing Walk Into A Bar site .....what a great blog title!
Julie Krueger
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:36 AM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- Well, I lost interest that Grice is not listed.
>
> His usual example is:
>
> "Heidegger is right. Things are familiar to us (and thus comtemptible)
> when we find an use for them. A typewriter however, is of no use to me,
> since
> I do not type."
>
> But I do understand all the philosophers he selects (the blogger) so should
> get a clearer picture of what he means; a reply to the blog (titled "o now
> then") points to the superficiality of it all. I do have witnessed too
> close of an interaction in philosophy seminars with the computer types,
> which
> I on the whole minimise. It's like with 'computer literacy': stuff and
> nonsense. Witness Grice could not even _type_ let alone word-process. He
> was
> annoyed that his spellchecker would correct his 'pirot' (a term used by
> Carnap) or ignore, 'sticky wicket'.
>
> Yet, he was a master of formal language alla first-order predicate calculus
> with identity. If that's not a programming language, full with axioms, I
> don't know what is.
>
> Myro developed Grice's System. Myro calls it "System G" (Sally Haslanger
> let me have all the unpublished papers by Myro on this). I retyped Myro's
> System as "System HP-G": "a highly plausible/hopefully powerful version of
> System G".
>
> It's like the TLP. Donal thinks he is being deep when he says it's a 'tract
> of logical and philosophical nature". Good guess. And "Amalia" is a novel.
> Usually titles indicate what the book is about. But there are exceptions,
> as Geary's current novel. (But don't disturb him, he is working).
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
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