Dear Friends,
It is fun to read the article only through the voices of the people cited:
"Philosophy, then, as the French thinker Bruno Latour would have it, was “purified” — separated from society in the process of modernization."
"The 18th-century thinker Joseph Priestley wrote “a Philosopher ought to be something greater and better than another man.”
"As the historian Steven Shapin has noted, the rise of disciplines in the 19th century changed all this."
"Kierkegaard and Nietzsche had proved the failure of philosophy”
"Alasdair MacIntyre explained philosophy’s contemporary position of insignificance in society and marginality in the academy”
"The individual scientist is no different from the average Joe; he or she has, as Shapin has written, “no special authority to pronounce on what ought to be done.”
It is also interesting that the author refers to no one as a “philosopher”,
Best regards,
Eduardo Corte-Real
> No dia 18/01/2016, às 22:29, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
>
> Dear Ken,
>
> Many thanks for the critique of the article - it helps.
>
> The GRAB line I take (with my dirty hands) from the article is:
> ³Philosophy is a mangle².
>
> If I was the editor of the paper, I would have asked them to re-write
> their piece with this as the central metaphor/concept.
> That way we might have got some philosophy from them to help illuminate
> the history.
>
> Mangling is a noble art, not unlike the wrangling we have touched on
> before on this list.
>
> My mother had a mangle that I used as soon as I was strong enough. It
> taught me much. (My starting line)
>
> Cheers
>
> keith
>
> On 19/01/2016, 5:52 AM, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
> studies and related research in Design on behalf of Ken Friedman"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Harold,
>>
>> Thanks for the post you sent to the PhD-Lesign List. I read the article
>> by Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle titled ³When Philosophy Lost Its Way²
>> in the New York Times column, The Stone. Those who have not read it will
>> find it at URL:
>>
>> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/when-philosophy-lost-its-w
>> ay/
>>
>> When I read this article, I didn¹t think of it with respect to design. I
>> was thinking in terms of philosophy and the life of the mind in cultural
>> context. That is, I was thinking of philosophy more or less as Frodeman
>> and Briggle raised the question.
>>
>> It is hard to say whether the issues that apply to philosophy apply to
>> design. I suspect you may be right, and I think that some of these issues
>> do apply to design. The degree to which they apply raises questions on
>> issues that have long interested many of us. I hope to respond later on
>> the question of design in the university.
>
>
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