We might be. I wanted to share some more thoughts as I read John Searle’s new book “Making the Social World“And one of the things that has struck me profoundly about social reality is the degree to which we are in fact all institutionalized. Think about it – most people in the developed west who [...]
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Are We All Institutionalized?
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 2, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/12/02/are-we-all-institutionalized/
Emerson’s Process Philosophy
The American Pragmatists outlined in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a profound evolutionary process philosophy. The view of reality they explored was one in which all of reality was seen as an unending flow of energy. Human life was part of that flow, even the physical forms of material objects were part of [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on July 15, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/07/15/emerson%e2%80%99s-process-philosophy/
We are the Conscious Part of the Universe
Now that I have got out some of my thoughts about the nature of truth I thought that I would respond directly to some of Chuck R’s earlier comment. (This is how this diversion got started after all.) Chuck in his comment takes a stab at what he believes many people on this blog – [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on April 17, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/04/17/i-am-the-conscious-part-of-the-universe/
The Emergence of John Dewey
As I think more about the way John Dewey was seeing the world I can only think in terms of emergence. Dewey seemed to see the world emerging constantly as an interconnected whole, not as separate pieces. He saw each moment as the eruption of a total affair, a total event. The world is a [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 20, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/03/20/the-emergence-of-john-dewey/
Dynamic Engagement with the Universe
I had the pleasure to spend last weekend at a conference dedicated to American philosophy. It was the annual conference of SAAP (The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.) During the three days I heard some fascinating and illuminating papers read and discussed, all related to topics that we often discuss here on this [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 17, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/03/17/dynamic-engagement-with-the-universe/
Cosmos, Consciousness and Culture
It was almost exactly one year ago today that I started this blog so I guess this is my first anniversary post. I started the blog because I wanted to explore the relationship between classical American Philosophy and the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment which I have been involved with for 18 years. What I found [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 27, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/27/cosmos-consciousness-and-culture/
John Dewey and Cultural Evolution
What I see in John Dewey’s Instrumentalism is a compelling theory of how the evolution of culture can be consciously guided. Dewey’s ideas about directing the further development of culture rest squarely on his understanding of objects as things with meaning and his understanding of meaning as always pointing to some future utility. For Dewey a thing, [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 24, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/24/john-dewey-and-cultural-evolution/
Ideas and Education
Now back to John Dewey who felt that his instrumental view of reality did away with the philosophical problem of mind and matter. Prior to communication reality is an unending stream of events that are embedded in the circumstances that gave rise to them. With language these events can be named and they become objects, [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 21, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/21/ideas-and-education/
Riding the Currents on the Ocean of Mind
I can describe the beautiful image that built in my mind as I read John Dewey’s book “Experience and Nature” by describing a vision of reality as currents in the ocean of mind. Think of mind as an ocean and within that ocean there are currents. Now imagine that there are objects floating on the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 9, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/09/riding-the-currents-on-the-ocean-of-mind/
Communication and the Mind
I still have a few more thoughts about John Dewey’s profound book “Experience and Nature” to develop in this post and the next before I get to explain what hit me while I was reading a week or so ago. In the philosophy of Dewey communication was analogous to the Thirdness described by Charles Sanders [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 7, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/07/communication-and-the-mind/
