Phenomenology and Constructivism

Posted on November 5, 2010 by admin

A six-part conversation between Jonathan Raskin and Brent Dean Robbins on the similarities and distinctions between phenomenology and constructivism. The conversation took place October 2009 at the 3rd Annual Society for Humanistic Psychology Conference at the University of the Rockies in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
http://www.constructivistpsych.org/
Notes:

Science... c.f Journalism 

Connecting the dots - eg whittieker n psychiatry...

1. Phenomenologcal reduction bracketing

presuppositions catagories assumptios not gettin rid of but loosening 

2. Eidetic  essenses not platonic  but emergent from ambiguities of  lived reality approximate to lived experiences

emergent "essences" from description of lifeworld

other ways of construing.

develop emergent essence from descrition

situated structural description - can change?

is this 

essence - irreducible fixed?

eg Heidigger time space language sociality

emergent essense - not arbitary!?  essential ontological validity but could be framed differently... but has some ontlogical validity

Essential aspect of world(world structure) or meaning process..(persons structure)?.

My construction or world ?!!! 

Important question - everyday we dont raise it...? pragmatically 

we fall into world away from authentic mode of being.. (Exploring what it means to be).(Heidigger)

eg at moment do we worry about that. eg slide on ice

(what about climate change) is the question too loaded to ask...?

Humans ask the question about construction - address question of being...

re anxiety  - cant fall into world - so we ask these questions

thrown into world... hailed?

mystery - make sense via our culture...

if those explanations make no sense then we ask...

dasain attempts to get awy from subject oject

epistemology - subject object

empiricisits rationalist

heidiggere tries to get to point before distiinciton and subject object split... (c.f. ecosystem)

isness..

c.f univocity... Deleuze

what assume when operating practically...

do we address it

.c.f everything anything

noise>bracket>essense c.f journalist

journalism > ontological?

c.f falling into everyday understanding

c.f naive realism

how know phenomenological.....gets to ontology essence

what in service of...?

Phenomenological psychology

Empirical phenomenological

Georger

Husserl -  Meaning -?

- constructivist thinks many meanings

c.f Everything anything system ecosystem

c.f movie interpretation scientific - eg rosebud?

world-self relation?

not just any world...

fusion of horizons - Deepwater Horizon?  Ecosystem?

mutual a common world - basis for intelligebility...

> signification, signifying intention gesture - speech (merleau ponty)

Radical Constructionist - only in touch with own processes

only know own triggers never outside of closed system...****

private world...   but some similar  our structure affecting our experience...

private interior space..

all we know is interior space..

(pushing space between subjects - distance)

if there is a world beyond construction then it may place constraints on how triggers us...

structure and water

constructivism - sees observer perspective - interior spaces and construction outside...

stimulus trigger - > system >  disrupted homeostasis> construction > action

dialextic dialog between construction pressuosition embodied intentinon

husserl

intentionality

noesis act of construction  noema product

phenomenology - tries to start from the subject

constructivist - use many - empirical -   goal is always "practical"

pragmatic goal

not methodologically driven...

mixed methods...

phenomenological philosophy -  bracket [pragmatic...]

(re-instrumental rationality)

c.f knowledge . bfafe ..optimum mutual !!!!! where talk about optimum re mutual aims needs?

instrumentalism... c.f. truth

postmodern-pragmatic...

science - instrumental -

c,f Flattening of levels of the postmodern - hieracy holons ?

digital re natural ontology

phenomenological you are the tool report experience...

empirical -

Kuhn - stop asking questions an build body of thought

other times question

gestalt switch- c.f. sequential

 phenomenological not really science...

Fisher B - 

(misses asking if scientists are really being more than this)

narrative .... 

interperative - common threads

(not see subject object split) 

why is phenomenology a science - in service of a theory...

>understanding.. and systematic....

imaginative variation...... c.f meditation... (c.f. visions meditation)

***phenomenology: identify explore - tendencies of meaning constructions that happen in certain situations.."

not rational /emiricist 

nice

phenomenology of perception- Merleau-Ponty.. read

> 3rd Way... beyond subject object?

Heidigger ...