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RE: [xmca] Where is thinking?



Dot Robbins's Prologue to LSV's Collected Works, Vol. 6, Scientific Legacy
(Kluwer/Plenum, 1999) does a nice job of positioning LSV relative to
Descartes and describes well LSV's effort to unify the field of psychology
in monistic rather than dualistic terms (i.e., viewing human consciousness
as a single, distributed whole rather than as a set of binaries, e.g.
mind/body). I began reading Vol. 6 last week but have been inundated with
work and so have not gotten beyond p. 12, unfortunately.

Peter Smagorinsky
Professor of English Education and Program Coordinator
The University of Georgia
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
smago@uga.edu
http://www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/smagorinsky/index.html


-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Mike Cole
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:28 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Where is thinking?

Ludwig lives! I never would have thought of finding him, and the lchc
newsletters of old, on google. Thanks for that bit knowledge, Steve.

I think Jorge has a good point in his critical comment; what I found most
interesting was the idea of sources of thought outside the individual
being inside (as well) because the entire individual/society "binary" is so
problematic and because whatever one's final judgment concerning
this formulation, it reminds us that this problematic antedate's LSV's work
and tells us something about the intellectual mileu (as goes Valsiner
in The Guided Mind) that is worth keeping in mind (wherever that may be!)

mike


On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com> wrote:

> That certainly is a thought-provoking quote.
>
> Anybody know anything about its author, Ludwig Gumplowig?  The only result
> I got from Google on him is the April 1980 LCHC Newsletter Mike was just
> looking at.
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Jorge Fernando Larreamendy Joerns wrote:
>
>  Hi, all,
>> Mike's quote seems fairly deterministic to me, particularly when
>> considering the term "structured" and what it means to a sociological
mind.
>>
>> Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns
>> Profesor Asociado y Director
>> Departamento de Psicología
>> Universidad de los Andes
>> jlarream@uniandes.edu.co
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Mike Cole wrote:
>>
>>  I was looking for something else and found a fascinating old quotation
>>> from
>>> German in the LCHC Newsletter.
>>> It is attached because I cannot figure out how to get it from old pdf
>>> format
>>> into here.
>>> I think you will find it interesting.
>>> mike
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