Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Monday, 21 June 2010

P.C.P - Theoretical Position

Kelly's 1955 book has much wry commentary of all the philosophical positions attributed to him, and is freely available in searchable PDF form on the web so you can find the material easily. Of course, he was pre most of the "post" terminology so Husserlian phenomenology and Deweyian pragmatism come closest at that time.

The Dewey link is important because all K's philosophy comes directly from Dewey. Kelly is important as a minimalist who cut Dewey's instrumentalist, constructivist position to a few essential features and built a complete psychology/sociology from it. So wherever you place Dewey on your constructs you likely should also place Kelly.

Margolis' recent book on Pragmatism's Advantage, Sanford UP, 2010, is excellent in situating Dewey as a bridge between analytic and continental philosophy, and Kelly parallels Dewey in this.

Cleo Cherryholmes' paper on "Pragmatism, poststructuralism and socially useful theorizing" in Curriculm Inquiry 24(2) 1994, has some commentary which might also be very useful to you.

I am attaching a short note I wrote recently for Fay Fransella's newsletter on PCP which might have some useful comments and refs, best wishes,



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