Simple Simon
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Social justice worrier Psychology and philosophy content Etc
A good illustration of what Blondel meant by the "incoherence" of the positive (quantitative) sciences can be found in the Skinnerian use of probability
Recently learned that Georges Bataille's wife had an affair, and a child, with Jacques Lacan, who lived next door
You know who's not in the Epstein files? (cognitive revolution retroactively canceled)
"It is perhaps only in the new Marxism that we find anything like Blondel's insistence on the role of sincere action as the only adequate expression of the idea." - James M. Somerville
Somerville on Blondel on how Christianity not only answers the exigencies of human action and the desires of the human heart, but also necessarily creates new desires in man [sic] that it also satisfies
The annihilational (ego death) aspects of mystical experience don't predict well-being as strongly as the relational (connectedness) aspects From Yaden & Newberg (2022)
An evidence-based guide to having a spiritual experience (from Yaden & Newberg, 2022) * pray often * don't seek one * have a life circumstances that are either good, bad, or neutral
(cross-posted from Tw*tt*r) TIL that William James was desperate to track down a copy of Maurice Blondel's L'Action, evnetually writing to Blondel to ask for a copy. In 1907 Blondel shipped James his only (personal) copy of the then out-of-print book, which James read with pleasure (and confusion)
I will not be consuming the therapeutic alphabet soup slop, thank you very much
Controlling for SES, has any social scientist ever considered that a photo of the contents of someone's fridge could be a useful non-self-report correlate of depression?
Love how questionable research pracrices in psychology (and other) science is often explained in terms of unconscious motivation (Clark et al, 2021), which is itself connected to a contentious line of research replete w failed replications (e.g., Newell & Shanks, 2014)