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 5 July 2010

Pragmatism and Closure

Discussion to be added

Margolis‘ (2010) recounts the triumph of Dewey‘s pragmatism and constructivism as a synthesis of analytic and continental philosophy, and, in doing so, incidentally provides philosophical foundations for PCP. Kelly‘s achievement of extracting the essence of Dewey‘s notion that human psychology is characterized by our anticipation of the future, ruthlessly excising all associated notions, such as learning, motivation and affect, as deriving from this, and formulating this as a rigorous theoretical psychology and a powerful applied psychology, is a significant contribution





Kelly operationalized Dewey‘s ideas to provide the foundations for his own clinical psychology but, in doing so, he also provided a comprehensive rigorous model of pragmatic constructivism that others are only now beginning to rediscover.


by Brian R. Gaines University of Victoria gaines@uvic.ca


Refs: Margolis, J. (2010). Pragmatism's Advantage: American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
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