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Re: [xmca] Hallucinating Romantic Science



On 3 January 2013 22:36, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Huw for this video link.
>
>  On this topic of  Romantic science, where do others locate Shweder's
> understanding of "intentional worlds" within the notion of romantic
> science? Do others connect Shweder with Bruner, Cole, and Luria in the
> exploration of *romantic science"?  There are differences in emphasis among
> these various authors but is there also overlap??
>
> Shweder wrote: Cultural Psychology is premised on existential UNCERTAINTY
> (the search for meaning) and on a (so-called) "intentional" conception of
> "constituted" worlds" [from the introduction chapter of Martin Packer's and
> Mark Tappan's edited book "Cultural and Historical Perspectives of Human
> Development" page 6].
>
> Shweder's exploration of the ethical and moral dimensions within
> constituted "intentional" worlds seems to interlink with Bruner's notion of
> "possible Worlds, Actual Minds" which seems to share similar notions of
> cultural psychology with Shweder.
>
> Martin, in his introduction, locates the lineage of Scweder's "cultural
> psychology" with "Aberlard, Herder, Hegel, Heidegger, and Brentano as one
> stream.  Other ancestral lines are Levy-Bruhl, Wittgenstein, Cicourel,
> D'Andrade, Geertz, Kleinman, and Sapir.
>
> I wonder if the cultural historical understanding of human nature existing
> within the "gap" between time T and time T+1 can be linked to Shweder's
> notion of the existential search for meaning as ALWAYS UNCERTAIN?
>
> Larry
>
>
I haven't read Shweder.  Re, intentionality, I like Zinchenko's  (2001) The
External and Internal: Another Comment on the Issue.

There are many ways to think all these strands together, I'm sure, though
this one makes good sense to me.

Huw


>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 3 January 2013 21:18, <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Wonderful little piece with lots of the classic quotes from romantic
> > > science (e.g., "murder to dissect").
> > > New to me was the sacks luria link.
> > > Any chance you could elaborate mike? Or anyone else?
> > > -Greg
> > >
> > >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > There's a video of Mike interviewing Sachs & Bruner, in which they both
> > elaborate on Luria, on lchc someplace.
> >
> > I recommend it.
> >
> > Huw
> >
> >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:23 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The following review of a new book by Oliver Sachs talks some about
> > > > romantic science.
> > > > FYI
> > > > mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/books/review/hallucinations-by-oliver-sacks.html?ref=books&_r=0
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