I've been patient, I've been good
Tried to keep my hands on the table
It's gettin' hard this holdin' back
You know what I mean
I'm sure you'll understand my point of view
We know each other mentally
You gotta know that you're bringin' out
The animal in me. — 'Physical' - Olivia Newton John
Pragmatist feminist philosophers have been addressing several different projects over the past decades, including:
a) the recovery of women who were influential in the development of American pragmatism but whose work subsequently all but disappeared in the history of philosophy,
b) a rereading of the “canon” of pragmatist philosophers, analyzing their writing in light of their philosophies and attitudes about women,
and c) the utilization of pragmatist philosophies as a resource for contemporary feminist philosophy and activism.
[...] Recovering these women thinkers also allows us to hear new or excluded voices in the philosophic conversation, in some cases resulting in opening up the definition of philosophy itself.
Recognizing “philosophical techniques are means, not ends”, these women rejected “philosophizing as an intellectual game that takes purely logical analysis as its special task…” (Seigfried 1996: 37).
Because of the gender-based discrimination against women as rational thinkers and their exclusion from the academy, history has rarely carried the names and texts of these women into our philosophy textbooks (see for example Eileen O’Neill’s 1998 essay “Disappearing Ink”)
[...] many of the women whose work has been brought into the feminist-pragmatist discussion were college-educated activists rather than professional academic philosophers;
Pragmatism originated in a time when our culture was in the midst of enormous change in women’s roles, yet early-century male pragmatists were often unaware of how gender biases affected knowledge and culture as well as their own ideas. Like many figures in the philosophical canon, at times they universalize the male perspective.
[...] Currently feminists and pragmatists share an effort to radically change oppressive political and social structures, an effort that finds resonance with the early feminist-pragmatists. Jane Addams and other feminist reformers like Charlotte Perkins Gilman were continuously involved in fighting oppression, especially of women, children, and minorities.
[...] Nancy McHugh’s (2015) The Limits of Knowledge highlights one of the most compelling aspects of feminist pragmatist work: the need to engage along and across borders.
McHugh argues for a transactionally situated approach that aims to generate and sustain a vantage point from which to see complex, interconnected problems facing both local and global communities across social, economic, cultural, educational, and political divides. This means we begin in “the complexities of the everyday world” and engage with those who are impacted by the results. — Pragmatist Feminism - SEP
All this is relevant to the Masculinity thread because Universeness and I are engaging in typical masculine rhetorical maneuvers. — BC
All this is relevant to the Masculinity thread because Universeness and I are engaging in typical masculine rhetorical maneuvers. — BC
You haven’t made any argument in support of your rash assertion as yet. Give us an example of how sensitivity to initial conditions is relevant to human social and political structures.
Are you really wanting to claim they are simply chaotic and random outcomes like the weather? Provide some evidence. — apokrisis
The “butterfly effect” is already notorious as the most pop-sci hot take in non-linear dynamics. Let’s see you flesh out your claims here in some fully argued way. — apokrisis
This is too restricted to a cause and effect order, but I like your 'any spark will do,' as this suggests that when the spark is the cause of the beginning of a cascade, you do not say anything regarding what caused the spark or indeed, the nature of the spark. So 'any spark' may be caused by 'any event,' just like a butterfly flapping it's wings in London, ultimately causing a hurricane in Florida.The key is that it is “any spark” that will do the trick. And biosemiosis is about how to harness such criticality and milk it for scalefree growth. — apokrisis
Now you're getting the idea!A butterfly’s wing beat might have done it. So might a half beat, quarter beat and even virtually no beat at all. The frog fart nearby, the bee coughing a moment later - anything can be regarded as the material/efficient cause of a storm. — apokrisis
Pikachu gets stabbed by a Jamaican man and then asks why?
The Jamaican man replies he just wanted to poke a mon. — Amity
This universe is formed from the fact that chaotic systems naturally produce order.
Chaos is also demonstrated in ever human, all the time, by means of 'random thought.' An ordered thought can naturally form from that process. Watch something like: — universeness
Pikachu gets stabbed by a Jamaican man and then asks why?
The Jamaican man replies he just wanted to poke a mon.
— Amity
Could you explain this from a purely biosemiotics viewpoint please! — universeness
[...] So, if by aggregating humanity’s “intelligence” we inevitably absorb its biases, irrationalities, and stupidity, how can chatGPT avoid being sexist, as well as biased in any of the various ways in which humanity displays its remarkable capacity for thinking poorly of others who they fail to identify with, mostly to inflate its own egos and self-esteem? I asked the bot a few questions to find out:
Q: Would gender parity boost world GDP? — Is ChatGPT Sexist? - Forbes
Its an interesting branch to what is a man, woman, human! — universeness
...Especially when it considers asexual reproduction and the fairly wide existence of species that can switch between being biologically male and biologically female, as need dictates. — universeness
Doncha just love it when the flying foughts of butterfly brains spark off other trains. — Amity
How many Scots or Caledonophiles are on TPF?focus can flee oot the windae. — Amity
Dunno, but it sound like a cheap, bad tv show we have yet to be subjected to. In a similar vein to:Ah, how different would the world be if we could transform rich, political white males currently abusing power to...well, the opposite...? How would they feel? Would there be an increase in empathy or compassion and would it hold when they switched back? Would any pain be forgotten... — Amity
They are trying to prove that they should be King/Messiah/God, of the planet and over our species!Back to the question of 'masculinities and femininities'; the balance thereof...
How feminine is Trump? Putin? What are they trying to prove...with all the chest thumping/dry humpin'? — Amity
I tried youtube, but I couldn't find a clip that just said 'don'tcha,' pussycat doll style and I didn't want to put you through the horror of watching the whole song. — universeness
"Yes!" x15 - con accelerando e crescendo...until release...and then... — Amity
Why doncha post your most listened-to Elvis song in the Lounge? — Amity
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