[Buddha-l] sam harris at the aspen institute

[Richard Hayes]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:59 -0400, curt wrote:  
> 
> I think the "nobody here but us scientists" crowd (of which I was a 
> proud member back in the day) were not, in fact, so much among the 
> "pioneers" as the "settlers".

Fair enough. I began my sojourn in Buddhism with both feet solidly in
the "nobody here but us scientists" camp. I have ventured outside it
once or twice, but what I see out there scares me half to death, so I
still find myself with little interest in any kind of Buddhism that is
in any way incompatible with my deeply ingrained proclivities toward
what some (such as all my colleagues and most of my graduate students)
disparagingly refer to as "scientism." Try as I might to broaden my
horizons, Charles Peirce is still my favourite Buddhist author, next to
Stephen Batchelor. The rest are just misguided poets.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico