“Interpretation is to be scientific.” Those five words of Lonergan weave beautifully into my proposed sublation of Chapter 17 of Insight in the context of an effective engineering of progress that would gently blossom into the strange leap to eschatological neuromolecular reality.2 But here we are not pushing for a grasp of such a millennial-long global venture. We are, rather, trying to get the community around Bernard Lonergan to begin to take his project and his optimism seriously. Our effort is in continuity with two previous Assembly ventures but is quite independent of them: these introductory remarks settle that independence by indicating the basic strategy.
Author Biographies
Philip McShane, Mount St Vincent University
Philip McShane, Professor Emeritus at Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Canada, is the editor of Bernard Lonergan’s For a New Political Economy and Phenomenology and Logic, and the author of numerous books, most recently The Future: Core Precepts in Supermolecular Method and Nanochemistry and Interpretation from A to Z. His numerous articles and many web series can be accessed at http://www.philipmcshane.org.
William Zanardi, St. Edward's University
William Zanardi is Professor Emeritus at St. Edward's University in Austin, TX. He is one of three authors of a series of seven books applying Lonergan's fourth functional specialty to a wide range of issues. He can be reached at: williamz@stedwards.edu
