Re: Fwd: [xmca] A Failure of Communication

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Larry, picking up on a theme introduced by Mike earlier - we have to 
ask: what is the Ur-Act, the basic, elementary act of human 
(intellectual) life? I know of only two answers to this question, 
relevant to concepts.

The abstract answer given by mediavel logic, Linnaeus, the "psychology 
of concepts," all the stars of present-day continental philosophy is:

   pidgeon-holing.

The concrete answer given by Hegel, Vygotsky, Activity Theory, Thomas 
Kuhn and me is:

   problem-solving.

This is what creates a line of development, Larry.

Andy
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Larry Purss wrote:
> Andy
> your comment:
> "Ideal typical path of development" *points to* distinct settings 
> (e.g. natural science, everyday life at home, school, etc.) which is 
> indeed close to the idea of "genre," but "ideal typical path of 
> development" is after all about *paths of development*, ideal ones at 
> that, not settings, projects, theories, domains, social groups, 
> frames, or anything else. :)
>  
> Andy, if the focus remains on *typical paths of development* OF 
> genres, OF distinct settings OF the existential life world, is it 
> possible to have a conversation within the multi-verse of *romantic 
> science*
> As I understand the focus on *typical* is *scientific*  the paths of 
> development may be romantic and implicate effective history.
>  
> I am circling around your invitation to have conversations that are 
> interdiciplinary. Simon Critchley, exploring the development of 
> Continental Philosophy wrote about Heidegger's idea of
>  
>  *an existential CONCEPTION of science* 
>  
> Critchley commented,
>  
> "This would show how the practices of the natural sciences arise out 
> of life-world practices, and that the life-world practices are not 
> simply reducible to natural scientific explanation"
>  
> Andy, your specific project to develop awareness of the *typical 
> paths* of develop of concept use and transformation through time is 
>  emerging within a particular  tradition or genre of discourse [within 
> effective history].  I am playfully inquiring if it may be  
> possible to *play* [a word you would not use but points to a 
> hermeneutical genre] on a larger *field of play*  that *hears* and 
> acknowledges your voice.
>  
> I will bring the discussion back to the paper under discussion and the 
> fuzzy boundaries between spontaneous and scientific [systematically 
> 'true' organized] concepts.  Andy the path of development FROM 
> spontaneous TO scientific concepts seems to have deen articulated 
> within a genre. However, this is not a dis-interested scientific 
> development. 
> Mike pointed to developmental praxis as centrally concerning *social 
> goods, including moral goods*.
>  
> Within our developing understanding of  ideal paths of concept 
> formation how is this emerging understanding circling back to 
> exploring how our *hearing* gives *voice* to the other*?
> {Which I suggest is one way to view the development of psychology as 
> a project within a shared moral compass}
>  
> Larry


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