WorldImagining

WorldImagining, 8 days ago to pragmatism French

In which #JonStewart expounds pretty damn well on the merits of some classical #pragmatist habits we'd all do well to adopt: reconstructing the past to find the meaning of the present and dealing with our shared experience as the core aspect of our reality.

#pragmatism #TheDailyShow @pragmatism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxzQJt80XI

WorldImagining, 18 days ago to pragmatism French

#Addams, #Dewey & #James pointed to where there is most struggle to survive as where the most vital experiences of life exist. Addams went so far as to say that if we "shut ourselves away" from sympathy with those experiences, we can mobilize only "half our [own] faculties."

#Gaza #pragmatism @pragmatism

WorldImagining, 1 month ago to cognition French

Looking for articles, or any kind of studies, passages, chapters on the evolution in the meaning of the words "cognitive" and "cognition." There is an older meaning that, to me, seems not to be used anymore, something along the lines of "cognitive content" being content that has an empirical basis..?

Much appreciated if anyone has any suggestions for pursuing this line of inquiry 🙏

@cognition @cogsci

WorldImagining, 1 month ago to philosophy French

Given his stature in philosophy, and for all its apparent incongruence, John #Dewey's "mystic experience" is surprisingly unknown. Yet its conclusion is a thing of serene beauty. He described it to Max Eastman, maybe 60 yrs after the fact, for Eastman's book 'Heroes I Have Known':

#pragmatism #instrumentalism #experimentalism
@pragmatism
@philosophy

WorldImagining, 1 month ago to pragmatism French

It's easy to see why Jane Addams cast St. Francis of Assisi as something of an archetype for her radically pacifist and cooperative #pragmatism. Meditated upon, the second verse of his most celebrated prayer contains the essence of so much of her philosophy. A timely disposition.

@pragmatism #JaneAddams

WorldImagining, 1 month ago to pragmatism French

A simple yet overlooked practical & experimental conclusion to be drawn from Jane #Addams' philosophy is that if we wish to introduce new information into any social transaction then, to control the effects of this, we should do so in as noiseless (i.e. neutral) a way as possible.

#pragmatism #experimentalism
@pragmatism

WorldImagining, 2 months ago to Futurology French

"It is not the rise of the irrational as such...that must give pause to those who would use #intelligence as a director of instinct & passion. It is the deliberate cultivation of the irrational. For the cult is not spontaneous & natural; it is intentional & purposeful."

• John #Dewey, 1918... two days before Armistice, to be precise.

#pragmatism #irrationality @pragmatism

WorldImagining, 2 months ago to pragmatism French

#Pragmatist experimentalism:
Experiment for experience’s sake.

#experimentalism
@pragmatism

WorldImagining, 2 months ago to Stoicism French

Good Friday #pragmatism:

Jane Addams' approach to arbitration & reconciliation takes antagonism to be something which always muddies the water of conflict, delays resolution & creates more evil.

"Forgive hostile individuals, for they know not what they do" could be one of its slogans.

#Easter @pragmatism #peace #nobel

RealJournalism, 3 months ago to random

From now on, "Genocide Joe" will get you blocked. One can be critical of Joe Biden's policies over the conflict in #Gaza without repeating Russian propaganda. He can't just pick up the phone and order Bibi to stop, and Bibi has already stated he would refuse such orders. And I'm not going to throw women, gays, trans, immigrants, Ukraine, or anyone else under the bus just because I'm disappointed in his Israel policy. I've made up my mind.

WorldImagining, 3 months ago to philosophy French

#Nietzsche's yes-saying #philosophy can be read as a poetic formulation of what later occurred as the universal approach to #instrumentalism in #Dewey's philosophy. The moral disposition resulting from wholly embodying either is the same: Come what may, I will find a way to use it.

@philosophy
@pragmatism

WorldImagining, 3 months ago to ukteachers French

Whenever two or more incompatible worldviews (#cultures, #paradigms, etc.) come into contact, the intelligent approach is to communicate, deliberate, and reconstruct them together through a forward facing process of mutual #education Incommensurabilities are merely puzzles to solve.

@philosophy
@pragmatism

NicoleCRust, 3 months ago to random

Fascinating first person account by a psychologist who faked data

The scientist: Diederik Stapel. A Dutch social psychologist. He wrote a book explaining the context and how one thing led to another until he was caught. Nick Brown translated it into English. Freely available here:

http://nick.brown.free.fr/stapel

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I also became increasingly skilled in the use of techniques that could put a healthy-
looking shine on otherwise mediocre results. If I didn’t get the effect I wanted across all the
different measures I’d used or the questions I’d asked, I would use the ones that did show
that effect. If an effect was present in an experiment, but not strongly enough to be tapped
by all of the types of measurements I’d used, I would make it stronger by combining the measures where the effect seemed to be only partly working. ...

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After years of balancing on the outer limits, the gray became darker and darker until
it was black, and I fell off the edge into the abyss. I’d been having trouble with my
experiments for some time. Even with my various “gray” methods for “improving” the data,
I wasn’t able to get the results the way I wanted them. I couldn’t resist the temptation to go wanted it so badly. I wanted to belong, to be part of the action, to score. I really, really wanted to be really, really good. I wanted to be published in the best journals
and speak in the largest room at conferences. I wanted people to hang on my every word
as I headed for coffee or lunch after delivering a lecture. I felt very alone.

p103

I was alone in my tastefully furnished office at the University of Groningen. I’d taken
extra care when closing the door, and made my desk extra tidy. Everything had to be neat
and orderly. No mess. I opened the computer file with the data that I had entered and
changed an unexpected 2 into a 4; then, a little further along, I changed a 3 into a 5. It
didn’t feel right. I looked around me, nervously. The data danced in front of my eyes.
When the results are just not quite what you’d so badly hoped for; when you know that that
hope is based on a thorough analysis of the literature; when this is your third experiment
on this topic and the first two worked great; when you know that there are other people
doing similar research elsewhere who are getting good results; then, surely, you’re entitled
to adjust the results just a little?

WorldImagining, 3 months ago to movies French

The Zone of Interest is one of the most cognitively intense/demanding films I have ever seen. No other film to compare it to comes to mind. This is a piece of art that, in truly Deweyan terms, works on you.

#thezoneofinterest
#movies #oscars #Dewey #ArtAsExperience
@philosophy @pragmatism

WorldImagining, 3 months ago to philosophy French

Deep into Jane #Addams' writings and works at the moment. Can't shake the feeling that the most fruitful reconstruction we could work on #pragmatism studies would involve raising her work to its rightful level of attention alongside the three classical "founders" of pragmatism, i.e. #Peirce, #James, #Dewey. The sheer depth of influence on Dewey from Addams' insights, resulting from her own hands-on cooperative work at Hull House, is as staggering as it is inspiring.

@pragmatism
@philosophy

WorldImagining, 4 months ago to random French

I dunno, I've been combing back through the G7 2021 photos this morning and I'm starting to think #Biden made an honest mistake...

WorldImagining, 4 months ago to cognition French

Uncovered this truly extraordinary (for 1944) short text by an Alfred #Mirsky, delivered at the #Scientific Spirit and #Democratic #Faith conference, in a section named "The Democratic Responsibilities of Science." In it, Mirsky ties the behavioral effects of good vs poor laboratory animal welfare to the nature/nurture question of how environment interacts with genetic potentiality:

@neuroscience @cognition @pragmatism h/t @internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/scientificspirit0000conf_o3o6

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dewey, 4 months ago to random

“In discussing the questions summed up in the phrase academic freedom, it is necessary to make a distinction between the university proper and those teaching bodies, called by whatever name, whose primary business to inculcate a fixed set of ideas and facts. The former aims to discover and communicate truth and to make its recipients better judges of truth and more effective in applying it to the affairs of life. The latter have as their aim the perpetuation of a certain way of looking at things current among a given body of persons.” — John Dewey, “Academic Freedom” (1902, MW, 2: 54)