[PEN-L:7435] Re: Re: J. Donald Hughes on Mayan collapse

["William S. Lear" <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, May 28, 1999 at 18:33:01 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
>J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
>
>>       First let me say that I think your review of
>>Harvey is perfectly reasonable.  I have published
>>a bunch of stuff on dynamics within complicated
>>ecological-economic and spatial hierarchies
>>(see button on my website for recent pubs for
>>those who are curious) and I agree that gettting off
>>into Lebinizian monadology is just a waste of time.
>
>According to the index, there are 45 pages on which Leibniz or the
>Leibnizian conceit appears, in a book with 438 text pages. About 25 of
>these pages are part of an extended discussion.
>
>Here's an excerpt from Harvey's book. Readers can decide for themselves is
>this is "getting off into Leibnizian monadology" or not.

Hmm, it appears to me that Harvey is using Leibniz's monadology as
sort of an example of what not to do.  Or am I misinterpreting?

Barkley, have you actually read this work of Harvey's to assess
whether the review in question is "reasonable"?


Bill