Tony-- I have written to David to see if he has any texts, short of everyone
running out and buying his book (which I am sure he would not object to!),
that could guide our
discussion. His article in the Vygotsky companion ends with "in place of a
conclusion" and a warning not to cleanse Vygotsky of "rationalistic
tendencies."
Part of my unease in this discussion has been the binary nature of the terms
used, even as those using them believe in a basically trinary organization
of humaness.
mike
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
Thanks, Martin
From a Peircean perspective, there seems to be a falsely exhaustive
dichotomy here between the ["laws of reason"]-logical and the
psycho-logical. The semio-logical is not reducible to either of those.
Again, I think that Bakhurst's _The Formation of Reason_ is very much on
point here. While he's not using Peirce, he is using Vygotsky et al. along
with the Bildung tradition, which is all about forming within culture, but
not [I would argue] as a matter of something merely psycho-logical.