In his lucid and helpful reply, Chris Drain (2021) clarifies some of his views and aims and offers pertinent criticisms of my own. Drain refocuses my forays into Pittsburgh Hegelianism onto Vygotsky’s own thought. He rightly notes that Brandom’s account… Read More ›
Chris Drain
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2021
Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Lynch, William T. 2021. “Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (6): 1-19. Part I, https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5Ur; Part II,… Read More ›
Tomasello, Vygotsky, and the Phylogenesis of Mind: A Reply to Potapov’s “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking,” Chris Drain
I appreciate Kyrill Potapov’s recent response “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking.” There, Potapov defends Vygotsky against my view that Tomasello’s account of the role of joint intentionality in the phylogenesis of human… Read More ›
SERRC, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021
Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Schwengerer, Lukas. 2021. “Revisiting Online Intellectual Virtues.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (3): 38-45. ❧ Catala, Amandine. 2021. “Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›
Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking: A Response to Chris Drain, Kyrill Potapov
After reading the stimulating exchange between Chris Drain (2020; 2021) and Siyaves Azeri (2020; 2021), I wanted to reply to Drain from a slightly different angle. Drain’s latest response (2021) takes aim at what Vygotsky calls his general genetic law… Read More ›
Commands and Collaboration in the Origin of Human Thinking: A Response to Azeri’s “On Reality of Thinking,” Chris Drain
Siyaves Azeri’s “On Reality of Thinking” (2021) is yet another informative contribution to the philosophical deployment of Vygotskian psychology. I’m grateful to Mr. Azeri for taking the time to reply to my comments and for the opportunity to continue this… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2021
Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Congdon, Matthew. 2021. “Trusting Oneself Through Others: El Kassar on Intellectual Self-Trust.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (1): 48-55. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5DB. ❧ Elzinga, Benjamin. 2021. “Echo Chambers and… Read More ›
On Reality of Thinking: A Response to Chris Drain’s “Ideality and Cognitive Development”, Siyaves Azeri
Chris Drain’s response “Ideality and Cognitive Development” (2020) to my “The Match of Ideals” (2020) aims for further analysis of the phylogenesis of conceptual cognition. Drain suggests complementing Vygotsky’s and Leontiev’s accounts of higher mental functions and specifically human consciousness… Read More ›
SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2020
Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Park, Seungbae. 2020. “The Appearance and the Reality of a Scientific Theory.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (11): 59-69. ❧ Mason, Sharon E. 2020. “Closing the Hermeneutical… Read More ›
Ideality and Cognitive Development: Further Comments on Azeri’s “The Match of Ideals,” Chris Drain
In his recent article, Siyaves Azeri (2020) responds to “Wigner’s riddle,” i.e., how it is that mathematics can be so “unreasonably” effective at explaining physical law, especially considering how so many advanced mathematical concepts—unlike those of elementary arithmetic and geometry—originate so… Read More ›