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...philosophy. To some, the analytic approach is now old hat, while the older, unfashionable philosophies take on a new excitement. There are many older-line philosophers left in the U.S. who belong to neither of the two warring sides, including Yale's Paul Weiss, Chicago's Richard McKeon, the University of Texas' Charles Hartshorne, and Michigan's Abraham Kaplan, who states wryly: "The word philosophy means the love of wisdom. And the love of wisdom, I suppose, is like any other sort of love-the professionals are the ones who know least about...
...Middle Ages, the questions that philosophy asked were determined largely by theology; today major philosophical issues are posed by science. Says Chicago's McKeon: "The new priests come from the lab and hand us the tablet-how do we handle it?" Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus of M.I.T. is wondering about the possibility of creating a computer that would be completely determined by programming but would behave as if it were a free, intelligent agent. "If something that we knew was just a machine could behave intelligently," he muses, "it would tend to suggest that maybe we are just machines." Would...
Around them flocked William McKeon, the vain, insecure State Chairman who owed his office to Wagner but felt the Mayor treated him like a "file clerk;" Stanley Steingut, a Wagner enemy who was cager to be the Assembly's Speaker; several upstate leaders seeking a more influential role; and two pragmatic reformers from New York City's West Side, impatient for advancement and irritated by Wagner's indifference. As the coalition's efforts seemed to approach success, others desirous of a share of the legislature's $4.3 million patronage joined...
Split Wide Open. Democratic State Chairman William McKeon, whom Wagner had accused of bribery at one point during the battle, called a press conference, branded senators who had voted for Zaretzki "Wagner-fellers" and "Rocky-crats." Said McKeon: "At best it was a union between city hall and the Governor's mansion in the finest of shotgun-wedding traditions. The two guns held by each of these men were aimed at the eyes of the public." Mayor Wagner replied by again demanding that McKeon resign. That sort of bitterness seemed likely to keep New York Democrats split wide open...
...next witness was Jones, who said that when everyone had assembled in the hotel suite "Mr. McKeon opened the conversation by saying he had a 'couple of packages.'" Jones related McKeon's offer just as Wagner had, adding: "I said, 'It hardly seems to be worthwhile. Anything you said is of no interest to me.' " Using a commission-provided scale drawing of the meeting site, complete down to the sofa pillows, Jones described where each of the participants had sat. He recalled that McKeon had perched on a radiator, which moved Grumet to inquire...