Happy Christmas Eve, TOK!
Hope everyone has a good holiday. Thanks, Ali, for your personal introduction. For those on this list who are not clinicians, we clinicians often make a distinction between "content" and "process" talk, with content being about whatever topics are at hand and process being about the "how" of the relationship exchange, as in "How am I feeling? What is my place in this? What are the implied power dynamics?; How would I like it to go?" etc. Given that many of us are clinicians, I am glad that you, Ali, have opened up this kind of talk for us with your introduction. I think it is very appropriate to the scientific and humanistic enterprise in which we are engaged.
I look forward to many interesting content and process discussions going forward!
Best,
Gregg
ToK Society,
Good winter afternoon.
I find myself leaning toward writing in more of a stream of conscious style as a new/young mother and "non-traditional" psychology graduate student at James Madison University's Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program.
Why so many identifiers you may ask? Because I'm an interpersonally-detailed individual I suppose...
I'm curious (not sensitively curious or curious in a loaded manner in a way that could potentially make people (men?) feel uncomfortable, but just curious) about the space I take up in this conversation as a young woman.
While I have found a professional home as a clinical psychologist in-training, I will be forever informed by and grateful to my humanities education (English and Spanish undergraduate majors, and a master's degree in Theology).
Lastly, being a new parent has transformed my world as a human being, a complicated and beautifully-laden metamorphosis centered on relationality and the significance of its "exchange frame."
So...identifiers, that's right. I share some of mine with you as I think they pigment the way in which I shall color this conversation with my (as is everyone's) uniquely tinted paintbrush.
As student of Gregg's (and a participant of this listersev), I imagine myself as a Macy's Day Parade balloon handler, a little person holding tightly onto a rope attached to an entity so large and so grand, that for me to keep my feet on the ground requires creative effort; efforts usually driven by a need to make the intellectually abstract meaningful from a certain relational role at a particular moment in time (a mother entertaining her child with finger puppets, a therapist trainee unpacking a salient dream with a client (could use your help here Chance!), a wife trying to support her husband's professional development, etc.).
I do hope that my introduction does not throw conversations already being had, my intent is not to stymie "thought progress" by any means. Rather, I want to know you all (while acknowledging and honoring the limitations a part of such virtual and content-specific exchanges), and look forward to working together as we take the fruits of intellect and share its sustenance with all others.
Merry Christmas (for me) and Merry ____________ (for others)!
Warmly,
Ali
Alexis (Ali) Kenny, M.A.
Clinical and School Psychology Doctoral Candidate
Division 52 - International Psychology: Membership Committee, Student Representative
James Madison University - Harrisonburg, VA
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Hi List,
I would like to offer a quick reply to Gary, because he raises and important point about "factoring out language games". The meaning of this was not fully articulated in my opening. I was meaning in a "weak sense"; that is, by using the Justification Hypothesis to see how processes of justification emerge and picture provided by the ToK, then one can account for the (many) of the biases and blind spots that drive language games. I agree that a strong meaning would (such that there would be no language games, would be confusing and not workable). As I have been clear in my writing (e.g., Henriques, 2011), I see my system as a "justification system," as are all human linguistic propositional systems.
I would also say that I would place the ToK/UTUA framework at large in the language game of philosophy, as opposed to science, per se. I just started to listen to the book, The Story of Philosophy (https://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Greatest-Philosophers/dp/0671739166). It opens with a call for philosophical thinking that is very much in the spirit of this list.
Best,
Gregg
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