Andy
your comment:
"Ideal typical path of development" *points to* distinct settings
(e.g.
natural science, everyday life at home, school, etc.) which is
indeed close
to the idea of "genre," but "ideal typical path of development" is
after
all about *paths of development*, ideal ones at that, not settings,
projects, theories, domains, social groups, frames, or anything
else. :)
Andy, if the focus remains on *typical paths of development* OF
genres,
OF distinct settings OF the existential life world, is it possible
to have
a conversation within the multi-verse of *romantic science*
As I understand the focus on *typical* is *scientific* the paths of
development may be romantic and implicate effective history.
I am circling around your invitation to have conversations that are
interdiciplinary. Simon Critchley, exploring the development of
Continental
Philosophy wrote about Heidegger's idea of
*an existential CONCEPTION of science* Critchley commented,
"This would show how the practices of the natural sciences arise
out of
life-world practices, and that the life-world practices are not simply
reducible to natural scientific explanation"
Andy, your specific project to develop awareness of the *typical
paths*
of develop of concept use and transformation through time is emerging
within a particular tradition or genre of discourse [within effective
history]. I am playfully inquiring if it may be possible to
*play* [a
word you would not use but points to a hermeneutical genre] on a
larger
*field of play* that *hears* and acknowledges your voice.
I will bring the discussion back to the paper under discussion
and the
fuzzy boundaries between spontaneous and scientific [systematically
'true'
organized] concepts. Andy the path of development FROM spontaneous TO
scientific concepts seems to have deen articulated within a genre.
However,
this is not a dis-interested scientific development. Mike pointed to
developmental praxis as centrally concerning *social goods,
including moral
goods*.
Within our developing understanding of ideal paths of concept
formation
how is this emerging understanding circling back to exploring how our
*hearing* gives *voice* to the other*?
{Which I suggest is one way to view the development of psychology as a
project within a shared moral compass}
Larry