Sentences with phrase «about peirce»

The joy of talking about Peirce and Whitehead with Charles off and on during these intervening years has never ceased, even when we have not been able to see eye to eye about some niceties of detail.

Permit me to summarize my view about Peirce on continuity and individuality.

He knew about Lawrence, but did not know about Peirce or Whitehead — he was tickled to death.

He and I are in some ways the two among the living who have had the best opportunities to know about Peirce and his world.

Not exact matches

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I noticed some of the men talking about the Hijab, I see they are sporting tatoos and one woman has peircings.

Right away on receiving the information about natural selection as factor in the becoming of animal species Peirce said to Chauncey Wright that he'd have to give up his determinism; animal habits are not absolute regularities.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

Peirce's tychism or shancism opens the door to freedom; Peirce also gave the best statement ever made about why mind needs space.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

Never Whitehead's student in the technical sense, he graded papers for him, attended his lectures, and began an in - depth study of his writings about the same time as he was working on the Peirce papers.

However, Peirce also says that it is the disposition of the offspring to catch the general idea [the lawful process] of those about it and thus to subserve the general purpose (6.303).

Let me conclude with a brief suggestion about the conceptual utility of Peirce's view.

Ah, but about the present Peirce became another mathematician legislating for actuality; he decided that the presents in which actions happen are infinitesimally brief, with an infinite number in any finite time however short.

This discussion began with the observation that Peirce offered an insight into speculation about evolution when he introduced the notion of agape as an operative principle.

It is more important to consider what I think are crucial insights in both Bergson and Peirce about the interdependence that should be recognized between conceptual thought and intuitions.

CH: Well, Peirce's critical commonsensism is about right.

What I take to be Hartshorne's conclusions about the illustration of Peirce's categories in experience are symbolized through our sample feeling «X» and the lower half of Figure One.

Peirce was an immense genius, but he was a physicist perched in a world with a physics about to change to the foundations.

I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.

About these societies I, with Whitehead and the Buddhists, would accept much of what Peirce says about individAbout these societies I, with Whitehead and the Buddhists, would accept much of what Peirce says about individabout individuals.

«Existence, though brought about by dyadism, or opposition, as its proper determination, yet, when brought about, lies abstractly and in itself considered, within itself» (1.461, Peirce's emphasis).

I am puzzled by Thompson's suggestion that Peirce can talk about definite experiences as sensations of reaction, whereas the continuity is in the reactions, not the sensations.

When Peirce discusses individuals, he is writing about what for me are sequential societies of actualities, not single actualities.

This objection, while in a sense appropriate, brings to the fore many of the difficulties Peirce is worried about.

He did not know that Peirce, Willard Gibbs, and Clerk Maxwell were, at about that time, coming to the conviction that strict determinism was not necessary, even to classical physics.

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Director Kimberly Peirce's Stop - Loss, a drama about the consequences of the Iraq War, may be the best of its kind to date; along with co-writer Mark Richard, Pierce does an awful lot right.

Talking to Total Film, Peirce spoke about her decision to adapt the 1976 Stephen King classic, showing her love for the popular horror story.

One would think that Peirce, who directed an acclaimed film about a bullied misfit who would be persecuted for being different in Boys Don't Cry, would be a natural fit for the material.

Nathaniel: This is a great question but difficult because then you have to really stop and think about who made which pictures when and you have to set aside people you've been rooting for forever that will seemingly be 70 before they birth a third feature (I'm talking to you Jonathan Glazer and Kimberly Peirce).

Awakenings (1990)-- Penny Marshall The Virgin Suicides (1999)-- Sofia Coppola Boys Don't Cry (1999)-- Kimberly Peirce Frida (2002)-- Julie Taymor Monster (2003)-- Patty Jenkins Fish Tank (2009)-- Andrea Arnold Winter's Bone (2010)-- Debra Granik The Kids Are All Right (2010)-- Lisa Cholodenko We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)-- Lynne Ramsey Brave (2012)-- Brenda Chapman Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)-- Lorene Scafaria

Gabriella Wilde, known principally for her role as Sue Snell in Kimberly Peirce's remake in 2013 of «Carrie,» and Alex Pettyfer, who turned in a performance as Adam in Steven Soderbergh's comedy about male strippers, «Magic Mike,» display satisfactory chemistry with each other in «Endless Love.»

Kimberly Peirce's Stop - Loss, an MTV - produced drama about three young grunts returning from the war to their stars - and - stripes Texas town, got a more respectful rollout from Paramount Pictures this past March, but it flopped, grossing less than half its $ 25 million production cost.

Of course, public awareness and acceptance of transgender people is much greater now than it was when Boys Don't Cry — Kimberly Peirce's significantly more insightful film about Brandon Teena, a transgender man coming to terms with his self - described «sexual identity crisis» — debuted in 1999, thanks largely to visibility campaigns and presidential announcements (Barack Obama is the first sitting President to use the word in a state - of - the - union address).

While delivering a rollicking and racy speech about Varda's work, director's branch governor Kimberly Peirce gave the room a chance, at least, to laugh at the hypocrisy of the business when it comes to issues of gender, sexuality and power.

But I certainly don't bring the same expectations, let alone the same hopes, to the DC / Marvels — some of them anything but marvels — than I do to, say, a new Alfonso Cuaron or Kimberly Peirce of Brit Marling film... nor to anything in which Julianne Moore, whose taste in and savvy about projects match her talent, is involved in any way, shape or form.

Kimberly Peirce may not have been first name many would have thought about helming a modern - set remake of 1976 horror classic CARRIE, but when...

According to Peirce, this play is the first step to what the GEI hopes will be a string of events raising awareness and education about violence against women and the potential ways of stopping it.

He co-authored two books about American regions and in 2008 he and columnist Neal Peirce wrote «Century of the City,» a book based on a global conference sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

From Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus to digital visualization after the internet, seminar participants will collaboratively construct a visual encyclopedia of diagrams as we engage a range of theoretical propositions about diagrams by thinkers and practitioners including C. S. Peirce, John Bender and Michael Marrinan, Frederik Stjernfelt, Gilles Deleuze, Éric Alliez, Rosalind Krauss, Lawrence and Anna Halprin, Hannah Higgins, Anthony Vidler, and Fredric Jameson, among many others.

I don't believe he was referring to «authority» in the sense of expertise; in some sense the role of the IPCC in fixing belief around climate science is similar to Peirce's «authority», but it has no enforcement power and to me it seems far more like a step in the process of fixation and communication of scientific information, part of the publishing process, than anything like what Peirce was talking about in method 2.

If we don't want to deal with problems in Peirce's philosophy of science, simply talking about naturalism and pragmatism might be of help.