I’m very pleased you found it interesting. One connection I didn’t follow up on here is that American historian Henry Adams had a philosophy of history tied to the idea of thermodynamics, and it would be a fun project to read him in the light of Reichenbach.
I have a reading list compiled from your posts on this, I cannot even catch up haha, philosophy of history is just everywhere isnt it? If the project we are working on gets the funding, you need to jump on board, a small part of it explores the implicit existence of philosophy of history around us. Also, the part you mentioned about Fain grabbed my attention as well, I do not remember coming across that part, his book on sph was quite extensive as well so could have missed it, but I am also reading him and Mink next, and maybe Munz and White as well. Mainly their position on speculative philosophy of history.
The Fain quote is from the end of his book, somewhere in the last few pages. Keep me posted on your project as it sounds interesting. It never ceases to amaze me when I dig down into someone like Reichenbach how much I find that is relevant to philosophy of history.
He will definitely be the next on my reading list. Thank you for info on Fain, I need this for my current chapter for sure, will try to integrate Kuhn's argument as well. Does he mention Kuhn when discussing science by any chance?
Even though Kuhn is highly relevant to Fain's argument, and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions appeared before Fain's book, Fain only mentioned Kuhn in the suggestions for further reading at the end of the book (https://archive.org/details/betweenphilosoph0000fain/mode/2up?q=kuhn).
"The mythology scholar Joseph Campbell later made this claim, writing that, with science, “…we have a still greater, more alive, revelation than anything our old religions ever gave to us.” "
well, we world don't we? the magic is in the worlding, not yesterday's tomorrow, the romance of the lost world, and we feel more lost when the footprints have not survived,
all footprints are our footprints
reading starts with movement not ciphers, bones and grammar are not structures but memories of movement, like footprints, or star dust in our veins
I had as short term blog a little bit contra to Campbell's hero worship (Following a reading of Delueze's Bergsonism). The blog was founded after noticing, that in reading to my two daughters they were much more taken with tales like Thumbelina where the protagonist is thrown into one dam circumstance after another (more like most lives really), and works out how to survive, even if you have somehow ended up married to a toad. They like escape the room problems too, and tower defence games. It is an intense gathering-in movement of here and now, that's women's business traditionally in Aboriginal Australia. Moving the "here" around, to a new camp, is quite different in/when tracking items bagged, compared to hunting or careering which has to connect at least three different vectors over a landscape (my own preferred movement style) of [target -projectile - aimer] before anything is in the bag.
This is amazing, thank you! This will come in handy in the current chapter of my phd thesis.
I’m very pleased you found it interesting. One connection I didn’t follow up on here is that American historian Henry Adams had a philosophy of history tied to the idea of thermodynamics, and it would be a fun project to read him in the light of Reichenbach.
I have a reading list compiled from your posts on this, I cannot even catch up haha, philosophy of history is just everywhere isnt it? If the project we are working on gets the funding, you need to jump on board, a small part of it explores the implicit existence of philosophy of history around us. Also, the part you mentioned about Fain grabbed my attention as well, I do not remember coming across that part, his book on sph was quite extensive as well so could have missed it, but I am also reading him and Mink next, and maybe Munz and White as well. Mainly their position on speculative philosophy of history.
The Fain quote is from the end of his book, somewhere in the last few pages. Keep me posted on your project as it sounds interesting. It never ceases to amaze me when I dig down into someone like Reichenbach how much I find that is relevant to philosophy of history.
He will definitely be the next on my reading list. Thank you for info on Fain, I need this for my current chapter for sure, will try to integrate Kuhn's argument as well. Does he mention Kuhn when discussing science by any chance?
Even though Kuhn is highly relevant to Fain's argument, and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions appeared before Fain's book, Fain only mentioned Kuhn in the suggestions for further reading at the end of the book (https://archive.org/details/betweenphilosoph0000fain/mode/2up?q=kuhn).
Thank you for this!
"The mythology scholar Joseph Campbell later made this claim, writing that, with science, “…we have a still greater, more alive, revelation than anything our old religions ever gave to us.” "
well, we world don't we? the magic is in the worlding, not yesterday's tomorrow, the romance of the lost world, and we feel more lost when the footprints have not survived,
all footprints are our footprints
reading starts with movement not ciphers, bones and grammar are not structures but memories of movement, like footprints, or star dust in our veins
I had as short term blog a little bit contra to Campbell's hero worship (Following a reading of Delueze's Bergsonism). The blog was founded after noticing, that in reading to my two daughters they were much more taken with tales like Thumbelina where the protagonist is thrown into one dam circumstance after another (more like most lives really), and works out how to survive, even if you have somehow ended up married to a toad. They like escape the room problems too, and tower defence games. It is an intense gathering-in movement of here and now, that's women's business traditionally in Aboriginal Australia. Moving the "here" around, to a new camp, is quite different in/when tracking items bagged, compared to hunting or careering which has to connect at least three different vectors over a landscape (my own preferred movement style) of [target -projectile - aimer] before anything is in the bag.