vygotsky & the concept of consciousness a talk by andy blunden 18 th february 2011
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Vygotsky & the Concept Vygotsky & the Concept of Consciousnessof Consciousness
A talk by Andy Blunden18th February 2011
Reflexology
Subjective Psychology
Vygotsky’s Vygotsky’s Immanent Critique Immanent Critique of of ReflexologyReflexology
Immanent critique
Immanent critique
consciousness
physiology behaviour
BehaviourismBehaviourism
Physiological Behaviourism
Social Behaviourism
Excludes any notion of consciousness
BehaviourismBehaviourism
Physiological Behaviourism
Social Behaviourism
(1) Aims to predict and control behaviour(2) Excludes evidence proffered by the Subject (3) Excludes any notion of consciousness(4) Takes human beings as uncultured brutes
BehaviourismBehaviourism
Physiological Behaviourism
Social Behaviourism
The Ontology of The Ontology of ConsciousnessConsciousness
“The question is whether in introspection phenomenon and being coincide” and quoting Lenin: “the only ‘property’ of matter connected with philosophical materialism is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside of our consciousness ... the concept of matter means nothing other than objective reality, existing independently from human consciousness and reflected by it.”
Vygotsky
The Ontology of Consciousness
“My relation to my environment is my consciousness.”
Marx
The Ontology of Consciousness
“what for me is a mental, non-material, suprasensory act, is in itself a material, sensory act.”
Feuerbach
The Ontology of Consciousness
Herder↓
Goethe↓
Hegel↓
Marx
Unit of AnalysisUnit of Analysis
Unit of AnalysisUnit of Analysis
“Pavlov perceived the general in the particular”
“For the reflexologists, everything is a reflex”
Romantic ScienceRomantic Science
Gestalt
Urphänomen
Units, Elements, Microcosms, Units, Elements, Microcosms, Attributes and ArchetypesAttributes and Archetypes
Unit vs. Element:Every unit exhibits all the properties of the whole
Unit is always the unit of a Gestalt, and is itself a complete organism
Units, Elements, Microcosms, Units, Elements, Microcosms, Attributes and ArchetypesAttributes and Archetypes
Unit vs. Attribute:An attribute is just a contingent property, not the subject itself
x y
x & y
Units, Elements, Microcosms, Units, Elements, Microcosms, Attributes and ArchetypesAttributes and Archetypes
Archetype vs. Microcosm:Microcosm is the most developed unit; Archetype is the simplest unit.
Unit of AnalysisUnit of Analysis
Perezhivanie = Lived experience or adventure (unit for development of personality)
Joint artefact-mediated action (unit for the intellect)
Word meaning (unit for verbal thinking)
Thinking and Thinking and SpeechSpeech
Developm
ent of Speech
Developm
ent of Intellect (Concepts)
Pre-Intellectual Speech and Pre-verbal Intelligence
Thinking which is beyond words
speech concepts
Communicative Speech
“Thinking aloud”
Inner Speech
Pseudo- and Potential
Concepts
“True” Concepts
Any Questions?Any Questions?
In Conclusion
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Program of TalksTuesday 15th Staff Lounge 12:30pm The Mind from Descartes to HegelW’sday 16th Senate Room 4:30pm Marx & Modernity: Mind, Culture & ActivityFriday 18th Staff Lounge 12:30pm Vygotsky & Concept of ConsciousnessMonday 21st Senate Room 4:30pm Is Science a Humanity?Tuesday 22nd Staff Lounge 12:30pm Units & Motives in Activity TheoryW’nsday 23rd Staff Lounge 12:30pm Projects & the Problem of ContextMonday 28th Staff Lounge 12:30pm Vygotsky’s Theory of Child Development
Genealogy of CHAT:http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/Genealogy-CHAT.htm
Andy Blunden’s Home Pagehttp://home.mira.net/~andy
History of Philosophy on M.I.A.:http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/