[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Palæo-Griceianism, De-Extinct
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:47:51 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:06 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Palæo-Griceianism, De-Extinct
KEYWORD: de-extinction
Experts in bioengineering, zoologists, ethicists and conservationists
recently met in Washington, DC for a public forum on "de-extinction."
In a message dated 4/14/2013 8:18:55 A.M. UTC-02,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes in "Re: will they darken the skies once more?"
Like the passenger pigeon, the Logical Positivist when de-extincted might
face issues over parental control and assistance, but my suspicion is that
their putative father, David Hume, never actually cared that much for them
*Rawls discusses this somewhere, he distinguishes between 'epistemological
skepticism', which doubts the epistemological grounds of ideas or theories (can
they be defended by argument or evidence) and 'conceptual skepticism' which
doubts that they can even be discussed because of purported conceptual
unclarity. There are some instances of conceptual skepticism in Hume, hence the
logical positivists could claim him as a predecessor with some plausibility,
but generally he is rather an epistemological skeptic. Hume himself would not
apply the term 'skeptic' to himself in any sense I think (he usually applies to
his opponents) but Rawls' discussion has some applicability in modern terms.
Also, of course, the logical positivists aren't skeptics about anything except
the meaning of philosophical language.
I am awaiting the RP response now.
O.K.
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