[MD] Sneddon Thesis

[Ant McWatt]

Just to let you know,

Part One of Andrew Sneddon's excellent MA thesis relating the MOQ to the 
process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is now available via the 
following link:

www.robertpirsig.org/SneddonThesis.htm


As well as the Pirsig's new Observer interview in full at:

www.robertpirsig.org/Observer%20Interview.htm


Many thanks to Andrew Sneddon and Tim Adams for permission to use their 
respective material as well as to Dan Glover for his work in scanning a 
hardcopy of Andrew's thesis.  (Its abstract is pasted below).

Best wishes,

Anthony.



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This thesis is divided into two portions. Part One is a sympathetic 
exploration of the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Robert Pirsig, 
with special emphasis on theories of value. The basic outlines of the 
Metaphysics of Process and the Metaphysics of Quality are presented in the 
first two chapters respectively. The third chapter is an examination of 
points of fundamental agreement and difference between the two systems. 
Chapter IV consists in the presentation of specific arguments criticizing 
traditional philosophico-scientific thought.

Part Two is this writer’s attempt at synthesizing a meaning of 
‘value/quality’ and a new value theory from the works of Pirsig and 
Whitehead. The resultant system pays special attention to the balancing of 
tension between intensity of experience within individual value contexts and 
communal diversity of content of experience. Aesthetics is treated as an 
examination of the texture of individual experience; art is seen as 
deepening the harmonies and contrasts within a participant’s value context. 
Ethics concerns the relations between contexts. Individuals are responsible 
firstly for their own intensity of experience; ‘respect’ characterizes 
inter-contextual relations. The thesis concludes with a brief look at 
Constructive Postmodern Philosophy.


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