Equinox from around the world with ep. 23 of #EarthEclectic - Honoring Mother, #Autumn , Life, and Earth, as we veer from #FolkMusic to #ChoralMusic to #experimentalism - traveling from England to Canada to the US to Australia. Just four songs in this episode (a couple on the lengthy side) but we cover a lot of ground!
https://www.mixcloud.com/eclectic-collective/earth-eclectic-0023/
Given his stature in philosophy, and for all its apparent incongruence, John #Dewey's "mystic experience" is surprisingly unknown. Yet its conclusion is a thing of serene beauty. He described it to Max Eastman, maybe 60 yrs after the fact, for Eastman's book 'Heroes I Have Known':
#pragmatism #instrumentalism #experimentalism
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A simple yet overlooked practical & experimental conclusion to be drawn from Jane #Addams' philosophy is that if we wish to introduce new information into any social transaction then, to control the effects of this, we should do so in as noiseless (i.e. neutral) a way as possible.
#Pragmatist experimentalism:
Experiment for experience’s sake.
"[H]eavy psych rockers Blasting Rod… crossing the Pacific Ocean to play a show in the US and proffer their weirdo lysergic experimentalism in a context entirely new. [I]f you’re in Los Angeles or someplace adjacent, this is one to consider" —JJ Koczan
https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2023/12/13/blasting-rod-playing-los-angeles/
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Something you might not get to see every day here in heavy psych rockers Blasting Rod making the voyage from their home in Nagoya, Japan, to play their first show on North American soil this coming Jan. 6. The gig is set for the Redwood Bar & Grill, and the band will be joined by […]
An instrumentalist conception of perception itself would imply a significant shift both in how we design animal studies and interpret the resulting behavior and in how we understand our own research activities themselves.
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Overly fixating on #pragmatism being an "American" philosophy is, through the lens of #experimentalism, akin to fixating on a particular petri dish in a lab where certain effects were first observed.
What's interesting, what's scientific, is to see what happens when we try to generalize phenomena beyond the singular instance of their first observation, when we try to replicate the fruits of that dish in another.
Ultimately 'USA' is no less parochial a notion than 'petri dish 16B'!
How does #SystemsThinking relate to #Pragmatism? Within #PhilosophyOfScience, #CWestChurchman and #RussellLAckoff continued the #experimentalism of #EdgarASinger to put nonrelativistic pragmatism at the core of systems thinking in an entanglement of facts and values.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/nonrelativistic-pragmatism-and-systems-thinking/
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Reconstruction is significantly more challenging as an intellectual, moral, and concrete activity than deconstruction. This surely explains in large part why the major philosophies and disciplines of deconstruction came chronologically *later* than the #philosophy par excellence of reconstruction (i.e. #pragmatism/ #experimentalism). One can deconstruct ad infinitum, we've known this for centuries. Intelligent reconstruction, not clever deconstruction, is the real challenge.
Why do #instrumentalism/ #experimentalism/ #pragmatism paradoxically get us closer to reality than #realism?
The former present themselves as a set of quests for meaning, ever-evolving, whereas the latter presents itself as a quest for final truths.
Meaning, as a concept, can never be fully mind-independent. Truth can claim to be. Realism bases its claim to certainty upon mind-independence. However, certainty is itself a meaning. Certainty only has meaning in minds, for agents.
Gaian Way
CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology
Blasting Rod
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