[MD] Forget about Empiricism, no thanks.

[ian glendinning]

Hi David,

Yes Maxwell is challenging "basic empiricism" but he is not throwing
baby out with the bathwater .... his "Aim-Oriented-Empiricism /
AO-Rationality" are "extending" basic empiricism adding evolutionary
levels of value (which he calls Wisdom, we call Quality, ie aims are
about values.)

The Roy Bhaskar stuff looks interesting ... I'll have to digest and come back.
Ian

On 10/20/07, David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Ian & all
>
> Actually I think Nick Maxwell would say that he
> is challenging standard empiricism, the pure kind
> suggested by James and taken up by Dewey is
> also non-standard and has much in common
> with Maxwell's aim orientated empiricism.
>