Sorry for the grammatical mistakes, I m typing from my phone (*sayS, stemS) Il mar 23 giu 2020 21:28 Andrea Zagaria <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto: > Micheal and Liz, thank you for your answers. > > Don't get me wrong, I am actually very far from idealizing America. If > you want I can share with you my thoughts about it. > Just to note the first things that come to my mind: Nancy McWilliams, when > talking about the "national" personality disorder, say that America suffers > from narcissistic personality disorder. Being a bystander, that fits > perfectly well. In her syntethic theorization, narcissistic structures stem > from a vacuum of identity: "I don t know who I am, so I cannibalize others, > I always search for a reflection of myself in others rather than genuine > relationships". Well if you think about the history of U.S. that is not > comparable with european history, it's actually an historical vacuum, and > the foreign politics (imperialism) follow as such. There is also something > shallow, rhetorical, forcibly spectacular, from my european perspective, in > the american way of communicating. > > In turn, Europe is often like a liverish old man. > > Il mar 23 giu 2020 20:12 Michael Mascolo <[log in to unmask]> ha > scritto: > >> Andrea: >> >> The grass is always greener on the other side of the pond, methinks!!! >> >> M. >> >> *Michael F. 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It`s sad when people are not interested in fostering a dialogue. >> >> As a European myself, I have to acknowledge an important fact: we may >> have a great philosophical tradition, but often we are very narrow minded >> and we are not very able to connect theory with practice. >> The "american way", in this regard, is very much better. Better >> communication, better connection between theory and practice, more clarity >> in explanations. Many europeans think, often unconsciously, the more >> obscure you are, the more profound. They also like idiosyncrasies and the >> ego_biased tendecy to the paternity of a theory, rather than its content. >> Such an idiocy. >> That is the reason why, in my opinion, Lacanian psychoanalysis has many >> followers in Europe, much less in America (at least as far as I know). >> >> >> Andrea >> >> >> Il mar 23 giu 2020 16:18 Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> >> ha scritto: >> >>> Hi Andrea, >>> >>> Yes, I am familiar with her work. It is interesting and I tried to >>> engage her in an exchange to see the overlap between our systems. She was a >>> reviewer of the Periodic Table of Behavior paper. My take was that there >>> were clear ways to line up our visions (although I did note to myself that >>> there appeared to be a problematic dualism that you note). Anyway, she did >>> not seem terribly interested in fostering a dialogue. She was not a fan of >>> how I was connecting to behaviorism and she did not feel like I had done my >>> homework on European theorists. At least that was my read. Joe M. was in on >>> the exchange. He can pipe in if he sees it differently. >>> >>> >>> >>> Anyway, I think she has developed a cool system. I just don’t think it >>> quite goes deep enough into the descriptive metaphysical issues of mind and >>> matter to get quite the right lay of the land. >>> >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> Gregg >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* tree of knowledge system discussion < >>> [log in to unmask]> *On Behalf Of *Andrea Zagaria >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 23, 2020 9:27 AM >>> *To:* [log in to unmask] >>> *Subject:* Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science Paradigm >>> >>> >>> Hi TOK list, >>> As my target article about evolutionary psychology as a meta-theory >>> continues to be commented on, I bumped into a comment by Jana Uher. >>> She developed a unifying framework named* TPS-P *(Transdisciplinary >>> Philosophy of Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals) Here a >>> link for a summary: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__researchonindividuals.org_&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=LB2aApicKJSoveIOmyj_QVfo_H4KKZPXeAQIJTOFpAM&s=eK4Mvxfv0Fid7lPWQi4LowJ9nMNRn3EJCsNxRqrAxKk&e= >>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__researchonindividuals.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=PteCbF0_3SxYaCXICP5v7TZuEkSegG4Wve5qaszPOs8&s=ue8DIMAoaBDPSljWFGn0PKlYnHPRyaMgoovlsVqv6rE&e=> >>> I still have to study it properly, for now what I find not convincing is >>> her characterization of psychical vs physical, with spatiality as a >>> defining feature of physical and not of psychical. It seems, to my eyes, a >>> classic dualistic cartesian distinction: RES COGITANS (mind) vs RES EXTENSA >>> (matter). ( >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__researchonindividuals.org_tps-2Dparadigm-5Fmetatheoretical.htm&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=LB2aApicKJSoveIOmyj_QVfo_H4KKZPXeAQIJTOFpAM&s=nIgWhgS9B2i0kAj16W979bJUE79YXcxPHSHtln4bKKE&e= >>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__researchonindividuals.org_tps-2Dparadigm-5Fmetatheoretical.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=PteCbF0_3SxYaCXICP5v7TZuEkSegG4Wve5qaszPOs8&s=9GUmoJJG6dA4ncoz_j1cuSWAYHuPoJpN6zPUxFPGkQ4&e=> >>> ) >>> >>> As Gregg points out, thinking about the ultimate unit of physics as >>> matter is now out-dated; it is better to think of >>> Energy-Matter-Information. >>> >>> Are you familiar with her work? Any thoughts about it? >>> >>> Andrea >>> >>> P.S. I found out this morning that also Mike (Mascolo) published a >>> commentary on my article. I just looked over it, and still have to read it >>> properly, but thanks Mike…. >>> >>> ############################ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >>> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the >>> following link: >>> http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 >>> ############################ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >>> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the >>> following link: >>> http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 >>> >> ############################ >> >> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the >> following link: >> http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 >> >> >> ############################ >> >> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the >> following link: >> http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 >> > ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1