tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post2030218453997980460..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: From Bain to Fechner: parade of the nineteenth century dustbunny psychologistsRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-32517531831912703102009-12-10T08:52:28.013+01:002009-12-10T08:52:28.013+01:00Nice to meet you!!!
[URL=http://superjonn.50webs.c...Nice to meet you!!!<br />[URL=http://superjonn.50webs.com/restaurant-week-dc-2010.html]restaurant week dc 2010[/URL]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-5632846570849371002007-08-05T09:26:00.000+02:002007-08-05T09:26:00.000+02:00Goethes Erben. i like. plus - double-handed choice...Goethes Erben. i like. plus - double-handed choice cornucopia! i think emotions are like the weather — difficult to predict & forecast. wouldn't bob say something like, whether negative or positive, we are not our emotions? i think of <EM>Like Water for Chocolate</EM>, emotions work like leaven.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-32699944503847850792007-08-05T06:44:00.000+02:002007-08-05T06:44:00.000+02:00a drunk Jack Kerouac isn't oxymoronic is it?anyway...a drunk Jack Kerouac isn't oxymoronic is it?<BR/><BR/>anyway, if i had a choice between watching you wank & reading you happy, which should i choose? be honest. choose your best side.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-73102073616722539942007-08-05T06:31:00.000+02:002007-08-05T06:31:00.000+02:00Ho ho, North. Hey, I am eminently pokeable. I don'...Ho ho, North. Hey, I am eminently pokeable. I don't mind being ribbed, ridiculed, roped, ripped and roasted like some lonesome doggie on the Western plains. But hey, I got my references all lined up!<BR/><BR/>Speaking of which you, in your quest to touch the ends of the cyberverse, should check out the lineup of all Firing Lines at the Hoover institute. Interesting stuff there. A session with a drunk Jack Kerouac, poor guy, a session with the socialist candidate for the president of the U.S., and a lot of sessions they, stupidly, havent put on line yet, like one with Truman capote about In cold blood. One with a young Noam Chomsky. The problem is the sound - I can't turn up the damn vids enough to catch everything. Prime past life sixties vids - the past life, that is, of Uncle Sam.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-26531090859319674162007-08-05T05:27:00.000+02:002007-08-05T05:27:00.000+02:00first things first. you being fulla shit should no...first things first. you being fulla shit should not be confused with happiness ranting.northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-62629222102848759042007-08-05T03:52:00.000+02:002007-08-05T03:52:00.000+02:00So, North, you haven't said whether you think I am...So, North, you haven't said whether you think I am fulla shit on this happiness rant I'm going and going and going on.<BR/><BR/>So what do you think?Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-44750311855746094812007-08-05T03:46:00.000+02:002007-08-05T03:46:00.000+02:00because i misspelled Sartre?because i misspelled Sartre?northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-55502308197428735122007-08-04T21:13:00.000+02:002007-08-04T21:13:00.000+02:00North, nice catch! Although why Bob's shown wearin...North, nice catch! Although why Bob's shown wearing a tie is beyond me.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-66912955127002516102007-08-04T20:53:00.000+02:002007-08-04T20:53:00.000+02:00The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as ...The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion, or historical curiosity, is that it has something very important to offer us, for the new century. I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately, the sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life. <BR/><BR/>Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sarte once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. The one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, of feeling on top of it. It's like, your life is yours to create.<BR/><BR/>I've read the post-modernists with some interest, even admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more that you talk about a person as a social construction, or as confluence of forces, or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses.<BR/><BR/>And when Sarte talks about responsibility he's not talking about something abstract, he's not talking about the kind of self or soul the theologians would argue about. It's something very concrete: it's you and me talking, making decisions, doing things, and taking the consequences.<BR/><BR/>It might be true that there are six billion people in the world, and counting; nevertheless, what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference first of all in material terms, it makes a difference to other people, and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82EV4KBIsNk" REL="nofollow">bob</A>northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-76864734396633483502007-08-04T19:46:00.000+02:002007-08-04T19:46:00.000+02:00Solomon. Sorry about the misspelling, - I'm addres...Solomon. Sorry about the misspelling, - I'm addressing here the spirit of Bob, who no doubt is chuckling about my sudden interest in his work on emotions.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-21107900537617132932007-08-04T04:50:00.000+02:002007-08-04T04:50:00.000+02:00alan, a man we both know - Bob Soloman! - was a ma...alan, a man we both know - Bob Soloman! - was a major critic of the whole valence idea. I've been pleasantly surprised to come across his name a lot. <BR/><BR/>I'll check out that paper.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-46586682801199538632007-08-04T02:00:00.000+02:002007-08-04T02:00:00.000+02:00Warning: that paper's a pdf file.Warning: that paper's a pdf file.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-6422780381054124282007-08-04T01:47:00.000+02:002007-08-04T01:47:00.000+02:00While I'm scrambling to catch up with this stuff, ...While I'm scrambling to catch up with this stuff, let me call your attention to an online paper called "<A HREF="http://polorovereto.unitn.it/~colombetti/docs/GC_AppraisingValence05.pdf" REL="nofollow">Appraising Valence</A>". Here's a bit from the conclusion:<BR/><BR/>"Summing up, we saw that the notion of valence does not originally and etymologically refer to a positive-negative distinction. Since its introduction in psychology . . . and then specifically in emotion theory, 'valence' has been linked with the tags 'positive' and 'negative' with increasing frequency. More or less inadvertently, it has been used to refer to different aspects of emotion. At present, the ideas that there are positive and negative emotions, that emotions have positive and negative aspects, and that emotion is valenced all support one another and are interchangeable. This process of regimentation hides many problems. One is that 'valence' often implicitly means many different things; I have tackled this problem by disentangling its meanings. Another problem is that these different meanings tend to be conflated; I have shown in which sense, and claimed that this need not happen."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-37406928411210495522007-08-04T00:18:00.000+02:002007-08-04T00:18:00.000+02:00Mr. Scruggs, I think you are right that the popula...Mr. Scruggs, I think you are right that the popular press did that work. Yet - and this is not yet even a hypothesis, just an intuition, a conjecture in this conjectural history - I think that there was an alignment of interests here - there was the uplift culture in the U.S., there was the threat of labor violence and the threat of urban deviance, and there was the sense, among those concerned with governing among the governing classes, that the new 'science' of psychology could produce hitherto undreamt of means of command and control. The brokers, the dealers between worlds, really don't appear until the vocabulary has been established in the psychology and philosophy departments. Still, even in the twenties, uplift literature, I think, was saturated with a much older vocabulary of folk psychology - that world in which there is a definite rule about the meaning of the handshake - and of religion. But 'positive thinking' has already sprouted in this soil, I think. <BR/><BR/>But this is getting ahead of the story.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-75754110639505347382007-08-03T23:56:00.000+02:002007-08-03T23:56:00.000+02:00Partially hinged okay?Magazines and tailored broad...Partially hinged okay?<BR/><BR/>Magazines and tailored broadsheets. That's how it escaped. There was an explosion of periodicals catering to specific audiences, which gave them both a vocabulary and a forum where nornally rarefied things could be considered significant. These things needed explanations, to ground them and give them handles. Psychology provided it.Arkadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05838423612315386095noreply@blogger.com