Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry

Peircers,

I'm splitting off a separate thread for this portion of the discussion,
as I don't have much desire to revisit that whole symbol grounding biz.

Re: Jerry Chandler et al.
At: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/9165

I think psychology, throughout its many branches, is a fascinating
and compelling collection of subjects, so much so that I spent one
of my parallel lives in the 1980s earning a Master's degree in it,
submitting a Plan B thesis in the form of a computer program that
integrated a module for complex sequential learning with a module
for propositional constraint satisfaction based on an extension
of Peirce's alpha graphs.  I wandered through three universities
during that time, taking graduate courses in math, psychology,
statistics, and computer science, finally finishing in 1989.

The hot topics of AI and Cog Sci from those times have lately
enjoyed a revival on the Peirce List, and though it brings me
a twinge of seasonal nostalgia now and then to hear those old
chestnuts being fired up again, those problems seem to me now
as problems that exist for and within a peculiar tradition of
thought, a tradition of chasing will o' th' wisps that Peirce
side-stepped before it began.

I hear in Peirce a different drummer ...

I remember when others heard it, too ...

Regards,

Jon

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