What, Why & How do we Know ?
I’ve mentioned many times that “meta” is an important concept – the word itself seems to come and go with fashions. “Meta-X” equals “X concerning X” In my agenda here it is a way, in this Subject / Object oriented world, of taking that one step back from the apparent objects and focusssing on the … Continue reading “Meta Quality”
Thanks to David Morey over at MoQ-Discuss for picking up these links to papers mentioning Pirsig’s work. (I’m guessing partly prompted by the observations from Sam and Ant about the Ram-Prasad “Great Divide” article decrying the dearth of links between Eastern and Western philosophy – lets’ not overlook Pirsig and Northrop.) A Hubert Dreyfus paper … Continue reading “Wow, it’s full of holes.”
Julian Baggini article at Butterflies and Wheels. Subject close to my heart, but this article is mainly pointing out the rhetorical extremes between explanation and none, rather than the relative qualities of arguments. Some good points in the article about the human need for an explanation to accept, even where there there isn’t one available … Continue reading “Quality of Explanation”
Butterflies and Wheels [via Ray Girvan] Butterflies and Wheels is “fighting fashionable nonsense” (particularly pseudoscience driven by political ideology). There’s currently a dig at cultural relativism and at the charge of elitism (is it elitist to strive for excellence, and why does no-one ever cry “elitism” over those given special treatment to foster their sporting … Continue reading “Butterflies and Wheels”