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In a message dated 97-11-13 12:43:43 EST, Tony writes:
<< The mainstream doesn't
normally abuse others. It ignores them, which is far more deadly. >>
In fact, rather than simply ignore rival explanatory strategies, what
folks do is what analytic philosophers have done to the later work of
Wittgenstein -- they falsely attribute an unpromising set of commitments
[usually out of gross ignorance] to rival understandings in order to
denigrate otherwise potent alternatives to their own troubled
intellectual project. Again, focusing only on one area familiar to me, I
can site the work of a dozen 'top' mainstreamers grappling with the work
of Friedrich Hayek -- beginning with Kenneth Arrow and including such 'big
names' as Stiglitz, Samuelson, Hurwicz, and others. [I discuss some of
this with full citations in my 1996 HES "Hayek's Myth's" paper].
Greg Ransom
Dept. of Philosophy
UC-Riverside
Dept. of Social Science
Mira Costa College
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