Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 127.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:13:35 +0100
From: "Osher Doctorow" <osher@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: 16.126 how troubling the Dialogues of Hume could be
From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sat. July 13, 2002 8:59AM
WM,
I do not have a Philosophy Ph.D. but a Mathematical Education Ph.D., a
Mathematics M.A., a Cultural Anthropology M.A., a wife Marleen J. Doctorow
Ph.D. who is a licensed clinical psychologist, and I participate in numerous
internet philosophy forums and have published in philosophy and philosophy
of education journals (obscure as they may be) among others. If no other
Ph.D. responds, I will be glad to take the role of the House
Pseudo-Philosopher (HPP) with the hope of eventually rising to the role of
House Geniune Philosopher (HGP). The latter, it should be noted, is not a
disease of the digestion.
Your suggestions concerning philosophy are well taken, and I take this
opportunity to urge philosophically inclined humanists (and aren't we all!)
to ask me questions concerning my latest Theory of Everything (TOE) which I
have been developing on http://www.superstringtheory.com/forum and
real-analysis@ams.org and geometry-research@forum.swarthmore.edu and various
philosophy forums. If there is any hesitation in asking questions, I
propose the following questions to ask me or anybody else:
1. If quantitative people cannot translate their theories into roughly
ordinary verbal language, is it likely that their theories have zero
semantic content? (I think that the answer is *yes*).
2. Is it likely that translating between verbal and quantitative languages
facilitates and stimulates both verbal and quantitative
associations/memories and stimulates new ideas including new combinations of
both? (I think that the answer is *yes*).
I have only begun to start questioning, so hopefully somebody will reply
before I go overboard with my obsessions. : > )
Osher Doctorow
God Save the Queen
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 126.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
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>
>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:16:37 +0100
> From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
> Subject: How troubling are the Dialogues of Hume!
>
> Some of you will know how much fun Monte Python had with philosophy and
> philosophers. The NB column in the latest TLS (5180, 12 July, p. 16),
under
> the title "Philosophy can be fun", draws our attention to the summer issue
> of Philosophers' Magazine, on philosophers in the movies, and to the
themed
> Hotel Filosof in Amsterdam. The hotel has a Bishop Berkeley room, which
> isn't there at all. But we can be especially glad for the mention of the
> Philosophy Songs website,
> <http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/phisong.htm> (MIDI and MP3s
> included, the latter featuring Professor Alan White singing the lyrics). I
> recommend it to your attention, as a fine example of an online pedagogical
> resource. Imagine being able to sing, to your students, of course, "now I
> got a right, right, right, episteme!" (to the music of "I Can See Clearly
> Now").
>
> One does have to wonder about the possibilities of music in the
performance
> of philosophy, but here one needs professional help. Is there a doctor (of
> and in philosophy) in the house? Anything can be *discussed*
> philosophically, including of course music. But is a performative
> philosophy out of the question? (Face-to-face dialogue comes to mind.) If
> not, then could there be ways of doing philosophy in multimedia? Or do we
> simply declare all this silly business? Is a multimedia of (as well as in)
> scholarship possible?
>
> Yours,
> WM
>
>
>
>
> Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
> Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
> +44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,
> willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com
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