Tag: Pragmatism

  • The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations

    The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations

    Orientation Power struggles between the two sides of the brain In Part I of this article, I compared the left to the right side of the brain across many categories. One of the most interesting prospects in Iain McGilchrist’s great book The Master and His Emissary, is that the two sides of the brain functions […]

  • Out on a Limb with Dialectical Materialism

    Out on a Limb with Dialectical Materialism

    Orientation Who cares about philosophy? When most people hear about philosophy, they think it is: Hopelessly abstract The opposite of concreate reality The opposite of application For talking heads who are otherwise inept and clumsy – the wallflowers at a party It has no impact on daily life unless we consciously apply it It is […]

  • Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II

    Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, I described how initially the field of social psychology had deep roots in the socio-cultural traditions of Wundt, Royce, Baldwin, Cooley, Thomas and Mead. But by the beginning of World War I a shift towards individualism can be seen in the work first of the […]

  • Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I

    Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I

    Orientation Developing a Marxist social psychology is a very important aspect of explaining what is going on within the individual in relation to society as well as what is going on in small group interactions between themselves. What we find when we examine social psychology in Yankeedom is what you might suspect, and that is […]

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