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

SR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9052
JA: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9063
SR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9065

JA: critical reflection on the state of logic, mathematics, and science ...

SR: Sounds like a plan, but I doubt that from outside of these disciplines any
     criticism would be taken as anything but foolishness.  Still I think Peirce
     would excuse fools treading in some cases. The keepers of these disciplines
     are hardly angels, beholden as they are.

Stephen & All,

I suppose that would depend on one's definition of “discipline”.
What is that makes a person a member of a discipline, much less
a keeper of a discipline?  If disciplines are understood in the
conventional way as card-carrying social groups, that makes for
a lot of truth in what you say, as we find ourselves faced with
a picture of all but immiscibile and incommensurable viewpoints,
each jealous to maintain if not manifest what it imagines to be
the destiny of its domain.

But I believe that “discipline” has other,
more operational or pragmatic definitions.

Regards,

Jon

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