Online research in philosophy

Mind and body have been reunited by the "affective turn" in philosophy and (neuro-) psychology. Yet, for centuries they have been painstakingly kept apart, for a specific reason. Methodologically, to find out about the world, apply justice or follow news, independent confirmation has always been indispensable. As it turns out, it also plays an important role in our personal everyday lives, to stay away from depersonalization- or derealization disorders and mainly to become and stay happy.

We all live in the same world and we all have our trusts, expectations, presumptions, predictions, beliefs and intentions. They may be wrapped up in a theory or a model that makes us know and sense, intuit and realize, try and value or act and react - just in the mind or also in reality. Constructive recollection is a theory and a model. And it is about, though not restricted to, all of the above. Politics and ethics are derived from (...) it, as they both drive or could drive the (attention) economy. Their difference is what is True and Good versus what is not. Bergson's "duality of origin" brings in the critical factor of "independent confirmation", as it operates in realms like science, justice and journalism. (shrink)

Epistemological monism and ontological dualism, closely parallel philological Postmodernism and philosophical Modernism. As Social Constructionism seems to be a product of Postmodernism from which roots one of its founders, John Shotter now "backs away", "the edge" brings it closer to Modernism. A model is suggested to describe and explain living chiasmic relations on the edge both in monistic and in dualistic terms.

If Social Constructionism does not prefer monistic Postmodernism over dualistic Modernism, it should include, next to living expressions and spontaneous gestures, criticism into its process model, occurring as independent confirmation and implying coordinated reflection between the knowing organism and its sensed environment.

The role of consciousness in evolutionary psychology, apart from postponing, rerouting, reinterpreting or ignoring stimuli, may simply be independently confirming, as in any science’s methodology.