[MD] Rejecting Radical Empiricism

[Matt Kundert]

I found another place where I totally, flatly, and baldly 
reject radical empiricism like the worthless no good nic I am:

"I think at the heart of the difference between philosophers 
attracted to the classical pragmatists but repelled by Rorty 
is the thought that radical empiricism returns us to the scene 
of life, a counter to abstract philosophical sterilities. I can 
empathize with the formulation, to the idea of pragmatism 
'returning us to the scene of life,' a formula I've grown fond 
of. However, what I think we should rather say in most cases, 
is that philosophy is abstract by nature--that's what it is--and 
returning to the scene of life is something that _people_ need 
to figure out how to do, not necessarily _philosophies_, or 
other abstract activities. For instance, why would we 
necessarily want theoretical physics to do so? Philosophy is 
Dewey's indirect experience--returning to life is knowing, as 
Wittgenstein put it, when to put philosophy down."

from
http://pirsigaffliction.blogspot.com/2009/04/quine-sellars-empiricism-and-linguistic.html

I am such an artless, simplistic, unnuanced writer.  
Everything is so black-and-white in my vision, jeez.

Gosh.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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