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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Schools, philosophy of science, epistemology
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:08:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.113932.605@news.wesleyan.edu>,
- RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
- >In <C0M726.Jo7@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- >
- >> >[Rowat writes]
- >> > I am currently an undergraduate student of psychology and am
- >> >interested in exporing the philosophical underpinings of this field
- >> >(and epistemology in general). For this reason I am looking for
- >> >schools, or people, who have developed an expertise in this area.
- >>departments which specialize in philosophical underpinnings of psychology, and
- >epistemology in general.
- >
- >TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER:
- >
- >Here's what I suggest to my students who are looking for philosophy graduate
- >programs, or even undergraduate programs to which they might transfer:
- >
- >1. What readings or lectures have piqued your interest? Who wrote them? Whose
- >work were they discussing? Make note of the AUTHORS who are involved in
- >writing about the philosophical subjects that interest you.
-
- SG I would not encourage students to study falsehoods and evil but,
- instead, I would direct them to truth and morality. Ginzberg obviously likes
- Nietzche's desire to go "beyond good and evil." This is starting to have the
- same effect in the US as it did earlier in Germany. As Objectivist Leonard
- Peikoff observes in _The Ominous Parallels_, "The moderns reject reason
- 'disinterestedly,' with no explicit idea of anything to put in its place, no
- alternative means of knowledge, no formal dogma to preserve or protect."
- Sophistry is not wisdom.
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
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