Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:52:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: MT: re:tv...



Ah. Thanks for the clarification. Has any of the empiricism stuck, as much
has here the US and the UK? What about neopragmatism?

All ya'll's names sound alike to me. I guess Finns have lots of double
letters in their names. But don't the Danes too? Kierkegaard. . . Yeah,
yeah, I know it's wholly different language, related to Hungarian or some
such. 

In England what we in America call sweet potatoes (orange and sweet) are
called Swedes. When I was in grad school there I had a friend from Sweden
who once explained, as we sat down to dinner, that "The Finns eat a lot
of Swedes." So, you stand exposed. Cannibals all!

I have only been to Finland once and briefly, well, twice, but one time I
never got out of the airport. I spent a day and a  night in Helsinki in a
fancy hotel, wandered arounded the old city admiring the arichitecture and
the statutes of Mannerheim. After two weeks in Russia I understood why the
perestroichiki gave up on what they thought socialism was, compared to the
high life in Finland not half an hour away.

--Justin

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jukka Laari wrote:

> Actually, 
> 
> it was after the WW2. From fifties to seventies logical-analytical 
> phil. was the 'only philosophy'. Kaila brought logical-empiricism 
> from Vienna to Finland already in thirties. In seventies marxism 
> opened the doors to other ways of philosophizing. For some reason 
> especially Norwegians have been particularly keen to anal. phil. as 
> your name list implies.
> 
> Jukka
> 
> > I guess I had the misimpression that Scandanavian philosophywas more like
> > Anglo-American philosophy. I drew this from acquaintance with the likes of
> > Dagfinn Follesdal, Jon Elster, Arne Naess, etc.