Dear Stan, lists, But I am not scared by social constructivism at all. I'm bored. What I am scared about is the information that students are reported to have this boring and erroneous theory as their default approach. We have earlier seen student masses go down very wrong alleys (1933, 1968 to mention but two fateful years …). I am scared to hear reports about this about to happen again. I do not think such a thing as "our culture" exists at all - I have never seen any remotely convincing definition or description of it. Best F
Den 25/09/2014 kl. 21.28 skrev Stanley N Salthe <ssal...@binghamton.edu<mailto:ssal...@binghamton.edu>>: Frederick -- Being scared by social constructivism is quite natural, as it has not been part of the 'currculum' in our culture when it was in the process of conquering the world (AND originally looked like a 'French' aberration!). With world conquest mostly accomplished (the last major holdouts being Muslim 'fanatics'), subtexts are beginning to appear, and generate doubts Constructivism is applying 'self-reference' to our own culture, while the awful mess we have fostered upon the natural world is constantly before us in the the 'news'. "Where did we go wrong?" "Were we wrong?" "Why did we go wrong?" "Was it fostered by our teachings in some way?" Self- reference provides for feedback, like the current protesters in New York City and designers of wind turbines. Surely you can find in Peirce some statements about such a situation?, some guidance? STAN On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt <stj...@hum.ku.dk<mailto:stj...@hum.ku.dk>> wrote: Dear C, B, lists - Scares me as well - is this really so widespread among philosophy students? Why don't they study sociology instead, then? And why should we be "culturally sensitive" at all? We have only reached to where we are now by being INsensitive to a lot of cultural ideas - including theocracy, witchhunt, absolutism, inquisition, clan rule, feudalism, totalitarianism, just to take a few highlights from the European tradition … "Open-minded" sounds better to me - if it does not mean one is obliged to accept everything … Best F
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