sam michaels

A few degrees in psychology. Adherent of pragmatism

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

After all this time I will start occasionally posting. Mainly psychology/philosophy content. Critics are welcome! I hope to not become one of the people on here that blocks or otherwise rejects disagreement

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@PageLyndon @jessi_cata 😂

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@HunterEKozak @PAHoyeck @_LordHumungus_ Spoken like a true partisan. This isn’t really fair. The relationship of language to the rest of cognition is still a live issue. You have researchers like Gary Lupyan, for instance, that’ll say we can think of typical human cognition as, indeed, being language augmented

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@PAHoyeck @_LordHumungus_ Interesting

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@Amanda_Jodeh This emphasis on the environment would make a behaviorist proud 🥲

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@PAHoyeck @_LordHumungus_ In other words, that a language is a form of life arguably seems like a similar sentiment to the remark in the tractatus. (The greater context/theory of the tractatus aside, as you say)

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@PAHoyeck @_LordHumungus_ Good question

[Anne Churchland @anne_churchland]

A compelling reminder that cognition is cumulative, not episodic. Emerging neuroscience suggests every decision carries residual traces of prior choices and outcomes. The brain does not reset between moments. It continuously integrates lived history into what comes next.

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@PAHoyeck This is also interesting along side (somewhat anachronistic) speculation that he was on the spectrum

[James Barnes MSc., MA @psychgeist52]

A humanistic-relational approach does not deny biology. It refuses biological reductionism. It insists that brains live in bodies, bodies live in relationships and relationships live in social worlds.

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@EzekielEremita Does Wittgenstein explicitly address Freud ?

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@keithfrankish @ElsewhereFamous When you say ineffable qualia are an illusion. Is that the same thing as calling it a false belief?

People have false beliefs about their minds. That’s the “illusion.” Or invoking illusion is saying some thing more than _having a false belief_

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

Depends what’s meant by “materialism” exactly. But this could be an interesting discussion

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Levin and Adam Frank discuss whether science should abandon its materialist framework.”

https://t.co/1CGFw4Jdla

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@CrispinSartwell What’s the woke connection?

[Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist @SIUChasmite]

The want for a purely objective & scientific viewpoint on reality, even as a desirable philosophy, is a uniquely historical moment in itself. Though it has come to be identified as desirable philosophy never removes this ambition from being historically constituted as such.

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@keithfrankish @No5mallf3at For the record, Will likes to post about how Daniel Dennett isn’t a real philosopher. He’s putting his tail between his legs and playing nice now that you’re here

But he has about 0 respect for illusionist-style views. Sorry, his clown nose on and off routine is a bit much

[Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb]

Een infographic over constructivisme laat mooi zien hoe onderwijsideeën vaak vereenvoudigd worden tot slogans.
Over Piaget, Vygotsky, expliciete instructie en waarom leertheorie niet automatisch didactiek bepaalt.

Een factcheck dus...

#onderwijs #constructivisme
https://t.co/b9T0obj0ZD

[Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb]

Carl Hendrick argues that success creates motivation, not the other way around. There is truth in that. But the research literature suggests something more complicated.
A short response on why the relationship probably works both ways.
https://t.co/UJgTo6f91x

[Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist @SIUChasmite]

Given that analytic philosophy is not hermeneutically, existentially, or phenomenologically rigorous, we should not read it at all. In fact, APers mostly do not think of their answers to philosophical problems as mediated through history and structures of experience.

[sam michaels @SamSmichh]

@SoLInTheWild Is it? Couldn’t you also ask students, or ask parents what the student tends to be into? Maybe you just see no reason to do that in any case. But one could do it

Though I agree with the dynamic you add- that interest can also follow success, just doing/understanding the task