From: Carolyn Ray carolyn@supersaturated.com
To: forum@wetheliving.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 7:14 AM
Subject: WTL: Enlightenment: universals; new essays; Veatch; mp3
New Essays:
Scholars intending to present and defend papers at the Enlightenment
Annual Meeting were required to provide several samples of their work,
including one substantial essay and two new critiques of material
available somewhere on the web. I've published several of these
submissions in the last few days and will be continuing to get more
material published over the next week or so. You can find the
announcements on the front page. People interested in attending the
meeting may begin sending application materials immediately; see the web
site for instructions.
The Online Conference is tentatively scheduled for January 20-21. The
submissions for this conference are being evaluated and published at this
time. Please look for announcements on the front page.
Universals:
Enlightenment's Analytic discussion list has been critiquing chapters 5
and 8 of Carolyn Ray's doctoral dissertation, IDENTITY AND UNIVERSALS.
We have now begun more direct discussion of chapter 3, "Universals" and
will continue with this topic until winter break.
Since some people on Atlantis and OWL have commented on the dissertation,
members of those lists might be interested to know that they and anyone
else are welcome to join the list and observe or actively participate in
this discussion. Though anyone is welcome to submit posts for
consideration, it is asked that everyone keep in mind that the purpose of
the list is to assist professional philosophers by providing a forum in
which they can receive critiques useful to the development their theories
and written works. The list is strictly moderated by Bryan Register for
content, quality, and relevance, and the standard is generally graduate-
to professional-level. And, as the name of the list implies, we're mostly
doing analytic philosophy there. Most of the active participants
explicitly use the method of objectivity to approach problems and handle
objections.
Posts will all be available in the web archives, but since updating must
be done by hand, they do not appear immediately. They are, however,
public; so people who are not interested in joining the list are free to
read them at something of a delay.
(Note: I won't be actively participating in discussions of the topic that
have been occurring on the wetheliving lists, as I'm spread a bit thin as
it is and have a prior commitment to Analytic. Don't let that stop you.)
Veatch:
The Veatch discussion has been postponed until after winter break, due to
widespread difficulties in obtaining the out-of-print but
still-copyrighted text. We are currently seeking contributors willing to
write chapter summaries to start the discussion of each chapter of
INTENTIONAL LOGIC; please let list owner Bryan Register know that you are
interested when you subscribe.
The mp3 version of my TOC Summer Seminar 2000 talk, "How To Win
Arguments," which targets the kinds of reasoning errors made by, at, and
among Objectivists, is available for free download. CD's will be burned on
demand and may be purchased for $5.00 US.
http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com
Carolyn
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Dr. Carolyn Ray, Enlightenment.SuperSaturated.com
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