Hi TOK List,
For folks who might be interested in the book I am working on, The Unified Framework: A Metapsychology for the 21st Century, attached
is the final rough draft of chapter 1. Please do not share it or cite it as it is a rough draft. I plan on sending out a chapter a week or so. I have completed the first seven chapters of what will likely be a 13-14 chapter work. My [probably ambitious] goal
is to be finished by the end of July.
People who have read the emerging drafts have asked me who the audience is. My honest answer is this: I am doing my best to make the case for the vision I have and what has been my life’s work over the past 25 years in as clear and coherent way as possible.
I hope it is apparent to the reader that if what I am saying is correct, then the implications are profound—in the deepest sense of this word. The reason is obvious. The work plainly states that the problem of psychology means that our modern, natural language
for matter and mind and for social-pragmatic and scientific knowledge is flawed, confused and incomplete. In other words, its says the basic conceptual grammar for sense- and meaning-making regarding the human condition is deeply lacking at this stage in our
development of human knowing. It also says a new and better way to make sense of the mind, human behavior, and our place in the cosmos is possible. Thus, this book is for readers who are interested in those claims and who want to think deeply about a new way
to make sense of the world and our place in it.
If you do read it and have reactions, criticisms, positive sentiments or anything else, I am all ears.
Best,
Gregg