[MD] Sneddon Thesis

[ian glendinning]

Looks good Ant.

One question, for you or maybe Dan ? ... is it just me, or is it
because the presentation is incomplete, but the abbreviated internal
references to titles of reference works seem unresolved ... PR, AI,
1984, SYM, to name a few ?

Regards
Ian

On 12/8/06, Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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