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Emotional practices, part 2: Affective construction, the triune self, & the art of joyful deliberation

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2020 | 1 Comment »

In part 1 of this article, I compared two recent books, each of which proclaims a “new paradigm” in the scientific study of emotions and affect: Lisa Feldman Barrett’s “constructivist” How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Stephen Asma’s and Rami Gabriel’s “basic emotions”-rooted The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition. In […]

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Emotional practices, part 1: Affective neuroscience

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2020 | 4 Comments »

The study of emotions, particularly within the field of affective neuroscience, is a complex field riven by paradigmatic division. In my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, I proposed a way to engage with one’s experience, including one’s emotional or affective experience, within an “eco-ethico-aesthetic” (or “logo-ethico-aesthetic”) practice that could help us deal with the “Anthropocene predicament.” […]

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Realism & Peirce

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on October 14, 2013 | 8 Comments »

Levi is out swinging (in the most entertaining way possible; I love it when he gets on a roll, and I do agree with him on much of it). Of course, there’s not much new in what he says (that hasn’t been said by Left-realists for the last few decades, and by Latour more recently). […]

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More on constructions: gun, hammer, or scaffold?

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The comments on this previous post resulted in my doing a bit of quick research (methodology: googling) on how often the terms “constructivism” and “constructionism” get used in relation to certain theorists and theoretical terms. Here are the results. I’ve put the “winning” terms in bold:

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For a moratorium on “constructivism”

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim  Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]

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