=================== HES POSTING ======================= 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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]