Hello,
the reader will be published in 2006, Leipziger
Universitätsverlag by me. Contributors et al.
Yvon Gauthier (Montreal, Canada): Constructive truth and certainty in logic
and mathematics

Christopher G. Small (Waterloo, Canada): Mathematical Realism and the Limits
of Reason

Wolfgang Deppert (Kiel): Gibt es eine Wechselwirkung zwischen Heisenberg und
Kant?

Werner Diederich (Hamburg): Relativistische Argumente in Kepler’s Werk

Peeter Müüsepp (Tallinn, Estonia): Ilya Prigogine’s  „The End of Certainty“

Juri Eintalu (Tallinn, Estonia): Do we know that that there is no Certainty
(Descartes, Hume, Wittgenstein)

Michael Rahnfeld (Hamburg): Poppers Induktionsskepsis und Carnaps
Lambda-Funktion

Ernst Wolf-Gazo (Kairo, Aegypt): Islamische Erkenntnistheorie: Licht und
Vernunft (eine islamische Variante von Neo-Platonismus und Aristotelismus)

Sara Heinamaa (Helsinki, Finnland): Certainty in Phenomenology (?)

Barry Smith : Necessity…


Regards
Michael



> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Michael Rahnfeld <[log in to unmask]>
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: Friends of Wisdom Website
> Datum: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:27:44 +0100
> 
> Happy Chrismas and a happy new year to all friends of wisdom!
> Our new reader "Is there certain knowledge?" is
> still open - if someone wants to contribute, please,
> feel free to contact me.
> Regards
> Michael Rahnfeld
> Germany
> 
> 
> > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > Von: G L Pandit <[log in to unmask]>
> > An: [log in to unmask]
> > Betreff: Re: Friends of Wisdom Website
> > Datum: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:33:07 -0800
> > 
> > Dear Nick, Dear Friends of Wisdom ("From Knowledge to Wisdom"),
> >   A Conference would be preferable for the purpose, even if it is held
> in
> > 2007 after some preparation, before bringing out a Volume or putting a
> > regular magazine in place. Press releases are also very important as
> part
> of
> > the programmes and activities to foster the aims of the "Invisible
> College".
> >   Happy Christmas, everyone, and a very happy New Year 2006.
> >   G. L. Pandit
> >   [log in to unmask] 
> >   
> > 
> > Nicholas Maxwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >           Hullo Everybody.
> >    
> >   I think Mat Iredale is right (see his email of the 10th Dec.). 
> 'Friends
> > of Wisdom' is problematic as the title of our website.  I too think
> > 'Knowledge to Wisdom' would be better, the URL being
> www.knowledgetowisdom.org. 
> > If there are no objections, I shall go ahead with obtaining that domain
> for
> > our group and our website in the new year.  And I will create our
> website
> > with 1and1.co.uk.  I have already been in touch with them about creating
> a
> > website with them.  I will let you know what the contents of the various
> > pages of our website will be before I create them, and criticisms and
> > suggestion would be very helpful.  Mat has suggested to me that he could
> improve
> > on what I have already circulated for approval, taking up suggestions
> > already made by others.  When the website is up and running we can, of
> course,
> > always modify it as we see fit.
> >    
> >   Once our website is in Google, I think we ought to have a public
> launch
> > of our group and its quixotic effort to transform academia so that it
> comes
> > to devote itself to wisdom.  We should send out press releases in our
> > respective countries, and tell the media, scientific and academic
> societies,
> > other relevant campaigning organizations and other emailing groups about
> our
> > existence and aspirations.  I have already had an inquiry from a British
> > newspaper about our group - The Times Higher Education Supplement.  Then
> we
> > must get down to the serious business of working out what needs to
> change,
> > and how we are going to help bring desirable changes about.  We should
> > consider having a Conference, either in physical space or in virtual
> space.  We
> > should consider getting a collection of essays together, and publishing
> it.
> >  And at some stage we should consider creating a Friends of Wisdom or
> > Knowledge to Wisdom magazine.
> >    
> >   Writing in the seventeenth century, Robert Boyle, one of the founding
> > fathers of modern science, had this to say about what he called the
> > 'Invisible College' - a sort of forerunner of the Royal Society, and
> thus
> of
> > organized scientific research. 'The 'Invisible College' [consists of]
> persons that
> > endeavour to put narrow-mindedness out of countenance by the practice of
> > so extensive a charity that it reaches unto everything called man, and
> > nothing less than an universal good-will can content it. And indeed they
> are so
> > apprehensive of the want of good employment that they take the whole
> body
> > of mankind for their care.' (Quoted in my From Knowledge to Wisdom, p.
> 54.) 
> >   Well, perhaps we can't quite measure up to the aspirations of Boyle
> and
> > the Invisible College, but it would be good to have a bit more of that
> > spirit infused into academia!
> >    
> >   I will be in touch.
> >    
> >   Happy Christmas, everyone, and a very good, flourishing new year.
> >    
> >                                      Nick
> >   www.nick-maxwell.demon.co.uk
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > 		
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