I'm sure I've met Rescher at Pitt. In the mid-sixties (I think) most of Yale's philosophy department moved en masse to Pitt resulting in it's being ranked second to Harvard in the Carter Study q.v.
----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 6:46 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <g...@ropella.name> wrote: > Heh... ask and ye shall receive! > > > https://fewd.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_ethik_wiss_dialog/Rescher__Nicholas__2008_Moral_Objectivity.pdf > > Rescher, seemingly a Peircian pragmatist, goes through a hypothetical in > an attempt to argue that for a moral principle to be objective, the > community to which it applies must have some (accurate) conception of > morality. By the parenthetical "accurate", I mean those moral principles > they hold must, in some definition, benefit that community. > > But what's interesting in relation to EricS's question about higher order > structures is his assertion that moral principles are *schematic*, with > some variables bound to context. And he develops, then, a hierarchy of > moral principles where: > "At this highest level alone is there absoluteness:the rejection of > appropriate moral contentions at this level involves alapse of rational > cogency. But at the lower levels there is almost always some room for > variation, and dispute as well." > > Such a nesting of schema bears a striking resemblance to what EricS is > asking for in the context of the biosphere or the higher order attributes > of dynamic systems. The *trick*, of course, that Rescher doesn't seem to > cover (perhaps I missed it), is whether the *schema* evolve, whether it's a > strict hierarchy, etc. hearkening back to EricC's post about whether or not > a Peircian "convergence" assumes stationarity. > > Regardless, I'm pretty skeptical of Rescher's setup because it hinges on > this ability to predicate/define groups and define what's beneficial for > those groups. But that's orthogonal to the rather nice idea of schematic > principles. > > On 12/26/19 3:43 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > > It would be fantastic to read some treatment of higher order structures > like social justice issues from Peirce or one of his intellectual > descendants. > > > > On 12/26/19 2:47 PM, Eric Charles wrote: > >> Eric (Smith), Peirce has extensive writings on probability and VERY > extensive writings on logic. I suspect he has much of what you are looking > for, we just don't focus on that part of his work as much. While he didn't > have a full modern understanding of all that stuff, he was massively ahead > of his time. > > > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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