BHA: Note re: Howard re: Ronny

[Ruth Groff <rgroff@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Howard,

I hope that Ronny will say more -- and I hope on-list, because I'm interested in the Aristotelian underground too! - but I just wanted to chime in for a second.

The Harre and Madden book is not that widely engaged in establishment
>literature either, is it?

My sense is that it registers on the radar both more and differently than Bhaskar's books.


But actually, rather than the history of philosophy
>stuff, I'm more immediately interested in your impression of contemporary
>philosophers of science in their engagement with causal realism.  Why has
>so little been made of the issue of ontological stratification?  My guess
>is because mainstream realisms have emerged from the soil of Quine and
>Putnam.

Can you say more about how Quine fits here?  I would fit him into the narrative very differently.


>Another way of asking this is how central has the critique of Hume
>been to the mainstream evolution of scientific realism?


Ellis and Caroline Lierse, at least, do go at Hume directly.  Can you say some more about exactly what you see being captured by the term "ontological stratification" that you think is not captured by those two, anyway?

I think it would be great to do some common reading of some of the
>references you mention.

I would love to do this.  Absolutely.

Ruth



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