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Tag Archives: pragmatism
Missing Contingency
This motivational tendency is a creative process through which the agent approaches new solutions, and enacts new meanings (Arnellos et al. 2007). As we have argued so far, aesthetic emotions provide the agent with the capacity to enact even before … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, HCI, John Dewey, pragmatism, somaesthetics
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Healthy Solipsism II.
My working assumption is that when I’m learning about another person, I am learning about their personal culture and their sense of their identity and about their narrative and about all the weaving and stitching which provides the sensible and … Continue reading
Empiricism
My thesis is that if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff pure experience, then knowing can … Continue reading
Reduced Bateson Set I. Set Up; Meta-heuristics
Sometime ago, yet late in my scatter shot intellectual development, I realized five problems fascinated me in psychology. One is the problem of how our brain instantiates and substantiates consciousness. Two is how it came to be that the equivalent … Continue reading
The Precision of Imprecision
Charles Sanders Peirce Louis Menand’s capsule intellectual history of American pragmatism’s initial development, The Metaphysical Club, was an enjoyable read. But even little ol’ me could note he advanced a highly selective narrative, where he chops off C.S. Peirce’s technical … Continue reading
Talking Problems
If we could bring ourselves to accept the fact that no theory about the nature of Man or Society or Rationality, or anything else, is going to synthesize Nietzsche with Marx or Heidegger with Habermas, we could begin to think … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Sanders Peirce, philosophy, pragmatism, Richard Rorty, Thomas Dewey, William james
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A Good Example of Transformative Anthropology
A Man Walks Into a Pub Well, hops- he only had one leg. A man who had his leg amputated when he was 29 after a benign tumour was removed was in the process of saving up forty grand to … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, phenomenology, pragmatism, serendipity, transformative anthropology
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A LOT OF STUFF IS TRUE
If both natural law and ceaseless creativity partially beyond natural law are necessary for understanding our world, and if we as whole human beings live in this real world of law and unknowable creativity, these two ancient strands of Western … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, psychology, Religion, self-knowledge
Tagged critical thinking, philosophy, pragmatism
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