Re: “Is it possible to advance philosoph y today?”

Re: Irving Anellis
At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9066

Irving & All,

This is a powerful meditation with an excellent punchline and not a few of its notes
resonate with memos I've written mostly to myself just recently, but all in all it
leaves me wanting to go back to my winter garden and rake gravel until spring.

Peirce makes us believe that a person can be doing logic, mathematics, science,
and philosophy all in the same moment, at least in closely succeeding moments,
so I was thinking of philosophy less as a cloistered guild than as a component
of ongoing activity where we lift our noses a little further from the grindstone
than usual and look along the line of inquiry for extra guidance.  There are
passages where Aiken speaks of philosophy in that sense and there I can catch
the drift of his thoughts to some advantage.

Regards,

Jon

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