Psychology is no nearer related to philosophy, than is any other natural science. — Shawn
The theory of knowledge is the philosophy of psychology. — Shawn
I would like to point at a real life example of possibly what Wittgenstein would have agreed with. — Shawn
My personal belief is that knowledge is a form of "memory" encoded in the brain, more specifically the hippocampus. — Shawn
With the process of education a person carries the memories of what they ought to do or become in a form of narrative that educators present about how the world works or latter in one's formative process what domain of knowledge a person is apt at in relation to the narrative of the educator. — Shawn
I find education as one part of the puzzle of identity theory, or at least the part of the puzzle which is quite possibly the most important part of the bigger picture, — Shawn
Apart from education as a formative process in the young mind, I would like to ask the reader about how does the reader suppose that knowledge can influence one's identity? My personal belief is that knowledge is a form of "memory" encoded in the brain, more specifically the hippocampus. With the process of education a person carries the memories of what they ought to do or become in a form of narrative that educators present about how the world works or latter in one's formative process what domain of knowledge a person is apt at in relation to the narrative of the educator. — Shawn
Of course knowledge is stored in memory. There are only two forms of memory: short- and long-term. The short term memory is information. If it's used right away - like a postal code or sale price - it's discarded immediately after; you cannot recall what cantaloupes cost in August, 2004. But if your Grade 4 teacher was any good, you remember the 9X table. That's knowledge in long-term memory.My personal belief is that knowledge is a form of "memory" encoded in the brain, more specifically the hippocampus. — Shawn
Education is just another part of life. If it's formal, you learn conformity, discipline, compartmentalization of subject matter, some social skills, a respect for or resentment of authority, depending on your school(s). You also learn many things that may be useful through your whole life and many others that you need only until the exams are done. You won't always know which is which until thirty years later when you discover you can correct the rival who misquotes Hamlets' soliloquy or you need to make a tent out of a canvas sheet. Aside from the influence of the school environment on your attitudes, education is just more stuff deposited in the memory banks. If it's informal, education is simply instruction and experience. Whatever environment it takes place in will influence your attitudes.what does the reader think about the quote from Wittgenstein and the role of education and learning on the development of the person or individual in terms of their psychology and "identity"? — Shawn
Just like there's a difference between data and information, I think there's also a difference between "memory" or memorizing something and the knowledge (and the understanding) of something. And this understanding defines how we act, how we view the World and things in it, which surely then passes on to the distinguishing character or personality that we have.Apart from education as a formative process in the young mind, I would like to ask the reader about how does the reader suppose that knowledge can influence one's identity? My personal belief is that knowledge is a form of "memory" encoded in the brain, more specifically the hippocampus. — Shawn
I think there's also a difference between "memory" or memorizing something and the knowledge (and the understanding) of something. — ssu
I would like to ask the reader about how does the reader suppose that knowledge can influence one's identity? — Shawn
Psychology is no nearer related to philosophy, than is any other natural science.
The theory of knowledge is the philosophy of psychology.
Does not my study of sign-language correspond to the study of thought processes which philosophers held to be so essential to the philosophy of logic? Only they got entangled for the most part in unessential psychological investigations, and there is an analogous danger for my method. — Shawn
Personally I don't really have a strong sense of self unless I end up stuck at a function or dinner party and am made aware of how little I share with others - in terms of interests and inclinations. — Tom Storm
The one area where identity might still be an issue is age. I liked being young and able much more than I like being old and unable. — BC
when preschool starts, and then kindergarten, and then even elementary school, and then high school, and then (for some) college, and then graduate school, and then post-graduate school, well... — Shawn
Another way of saying this is it's not the knowledge that is primarily identify-forming in an educational context, it's the context itself as a way of framing knowledge as power that forms the social identity and the ground on which individuals' navigation of this embedded framework rests. You might call individual strategies for negotiating the framework individual identities. But the framework is what's primarily internalised and grounds them. — Baden
The social machine that reproduces knowledge is also the principal site that society collectively reproduces itself within. — fdrake
Not sure. But a lot of potential PhDs seem to wash out just from the long dreariness and uncertain job prospects after completion, — BC
First, glad you were not washed away in the great flood. Floods cause such great loss. "Come hell (heat) or high water" as the saying goes. — BC
The term "legal studies" isn't very clear to me. When I think of 'lawyers' I think of 'law school' and 'law degrees'. There are people who train to do 'legal work' for lawyers, but who are not members of the profession as such. Don't know. — BC
Even though I find education as one part of the puzzle of identity theory, or at least the part of the puzzle which is quite possibly the most important part of the bigger picture, what does the reader think about the quote from Wittgenstein and the role of education and learning on the development of the person or individual in terms of their psychology and "identity"? — Shawn
Yes and, to develop the idea, there’s a kind of bait and switch whereby what’s ostensibly offered, “knowledge” (of this and that) is offered as an implicit route to power, but functions to obscure the actual route to power (the meta knowledge of the system of power in which such “knowledge” is misleadingly elevated) both in terms of its content and mode, i.e. this “knowledge” tends towards a static “body of knowledge” that divides the individual against itself rather than an integrated praxis that would unify and dynamize it. And this exclusion of praxis, the inculcation, not just of disembodied “knowledge” but of the idea that knowledge (implicitly generalized as power) just is disembodied “knowledge” enables the gradual castration into the social that the social needs to inflict to reproduce its organs (institutions and those willing to be dispensable cells therein). — Baden
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