[Xmca-l] Re: Chomsky, Vygotsky, and phenomenology

[Helena Worthen]

Wow, this is an idea, for sure.  Beginning with Chomsky and ending with Vygotsky? I am trying to get my head around this.  Chomsky would have been a little boy when Vygotsky died. 

So you're talking about a system. Not a chronology, but the reverse of a chronology. A system -- that means moving parts that do something.  What are you going to use to hook the system together and move it along? What will be the track, the signposts, the guardrails or the rungs along which the changes take place? What will this system do?

I can accept the idea that history is not the only track along which change runs. But what are you going to use in its place? 

I'm sure Vygotsky and Chomsky would have had some friendly conversations and found a lot to agree on, especially with regard to politics (once they got the 20th century out of the way) but I want to know what you have in mind.

Thanks --
Helena Worthen
helenaworthen@gmail.com

On Dec 17, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Dr. Paul C. Mocombe wrote:

> Essentially, I want to build an epistemological system beginning with chomsky and ending with Vygotsky. ..
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> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Dr. Paul C. Mocombe" <pmocombe@mocombeian.com> </div><div>Date:12/17/2014  1:46 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu> </div><div>Subject: RE: [Xmca-l] Re: Chomsky, Vygotsky, and phenomenology </div><div>
> </div>Yes to follow descartes is problematic...(just because you can think something apart does not mean it is apart in reality)...descartes' error, he assumed his ability to think has ontological status...But kant ' s introduction of the synthetic a prior fixes descartes, refutes Hume ' s skepticism,  and reinvents locke.  I read Chomsky as searching, empirically, for the embodied forms of understanding and sensibilities by which we experience being in the world. He stops there.  Vygotsky completes chomsky...my reading...i maybe wrong.
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> Dr. Paul C. Mocombe
> President
> The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc.
> www.mocombeian.com 
> www.readingroomcurriculum.com 
> www.paulcmocombe.info