[MD] MOQ academics

[Ant McWatt]

Platt,

I said yesterday:

You already have Ronald Di Santo, Thomas Steele, David Granger, Andrew 
Sneddon, Dean Summers, Orlando Borges, and Hugo Masse (to name a few) who 
are all academics who have picked-up on the MOQ and celebrated it "for the 
philosophical breakthrough that it is."  And the
number of academics who have picked-up on ZMM (which appeared 17 years 
before LILA) runs in the hundreds (check out the English Departments in the 
United States alone to see this).

You asked:

Would you be willing to add the accolades of those you've named above
to the MOQ website? Both old salts like me and newbies would find
encouragement if we read other than criticism of the MOQ from
representatives from the academe.

Ant McWatt comments:

Now that's not such a bad idea.  Do remember there's already the paper on 
pragmatism and the MOQ by Dean Summers at robertpirsig.org and, moreover, 
Andrew Sneddon has given me permission to publish his excellent MA thesis 
that positively relates the MOQ to the work of Whitehead at the site.  
Unfortunately, this only exists on hardcopy at the moment.  However, Andrew 
sent over a photocopy of the manuscript to scan so if someone on the 
Discussion list has a really good scanner (the manuscript isn't the 
clearest), the time and the patience, I can send them the manuscript (which 
is about 200 pages long) to work on.  Once it's scanned into a computer it 
will be relatively straightforward to upload as an html file.

Best wishes,

Anthony


P.S. Possibly David Granger shouldn't be on the list as an "MOQ supporter" 
as his new book on Dewey and Pirsig might turn out to be more ZMM orientated 
rather than MOQ.  Either way, his book is still good news in establishing 
Pirsig's work as having something worthwhile to contribute to academic 
philosophy.

P.P.S. Hugo Masse and Orlando Borges are on the list as they are academic 
philosophers concerned with translating ZMM, LILA and my PhD into Spanish 
and Portuguese respectively.   (Hugo was main mover behind the Spanish 
translation of ZMM re-published in Mexico a couple of years back).  I think 
the Portuguese version of my PhD is nearly finished so watch this space!

.

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