Talk:Introduction: The Foundations of a Cybernetic Discourse

What did pragmatism do? Doing pragmaticism

Wiki = pragmatism (emphasis on Peirce, James and Emerson) its links to the experimental epistemology of Kenneth Craik, McCulloch, Wiener and Bateson.

Sept= pragmatism overview = the stakes Oct= stakes and similarities Nov= differences that make a difference Peirce and proof. James and “relativism” James and difference Bateson and fallibility as method

sol's comments: I have made a number of minor edits throughout. largely punctuation and things. some rough left over reference numbers.

I am not happy with how I have left the end of loop de

"Butler’s materialist conception of the continuity of mind was extended into the twentieth century by the thinkers discussed in The Fabulous Loop de Loop – including Wiener, Korzybski, Craik, McCulloch, and Bateson, through whom we see an increasingly precise articulation of the relation between process and mind."

something in it is not sitting right - in both active address and how the articulation is specified but I will come back to it (I feel like its a bit important as the last sentence to wrap it up in a bow, although, of course, it is leading on to another page (which I suggest - as stated in the pad- should be the chapter introductions).