[MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey

[Ian Glendinning]

And ... quoting Hildebrand's own words on Dewey ...

QUOTE
Dewey's entreaties—that philosophy start from lived experience
(practically), motivated by moral ends (meliorism)—are prescriptive
but necessarily vague. They pose a challenge to professionalized
philosophers, who tend to respond by demanding specifics ...
UNQUOTE

The problem in a nutshell.
People who believe it is "professional" to demand definitive
(linguistic or logic) specifics.
Ian

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ian Glendinning
<ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Had time to read this piece more reflectively over the weekend DMB.
> Your "thinking out loud" is excellent stuff.
>
> I think this is key, ... after you have described the "non-explicit"
> thinking process in the classic tooth and claw predator survival case
> of evolution ... the simple intentional (as if) view of causation is
> shorthand for a whole lot of activities on many levels and timescales
> ... you say ...
>
> QUOTE
> the word "expedient" almost has to be vague
> UNQUOTE
>
> This is exactly what Pirsig is saying when he says that value /
> quality "must remain undefined" ? Pragmatically, these values cannot
> be pre-judged, prior to the hindsight of the evolutionary process. Our
> framework / world-view must not be (MoQ is not) prejudicial to that
> process.
>
> Regards
> Ian
>