{"id":709,"date":"2012-06-08T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T11:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/?page_id=709"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T11:12:24","slug":"imagination-and-action-gregory-batesons-ecology-of-mind-as-a-challenge-to-philosophical-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/?page_id=709","title":{"rendered":"Imagination and Action: Gregory Bateson\u2019s \u2018Ecology of Mind\u2019 as a Challenge to Philosophical Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participant: Simone Mahrenholz<br \/>\nAffiliation: University of Manitoba, Dept. of Philosophy &#038; School of Art<br \/>\nFormat: Presentation and Conversation<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/?page_id=95\">Themes<\/a>: recursion, paradigm, praxis<\/p>\n<p>Professional academic philosophy is still in the beginning phase of dealing productively with Gregory Bateson. In particular his claim to present an \u201cepistemology\u201d comprises numerous challenges, forcing philosophy to critically reflect on several of their own fundaments. Among those are deeply entrenched distinctions, such as the either-or thinking-style (classical logic), science versus arts, logics versus aesthetics, linear causality versus feedback-circularity, praxis versus theory, emotion versus cognition, thinking versus perceiving, epistemology versus ontology, knowing versus learning, and even rationality versus spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>All of these topics and relations, I want to claim, are holistically comprised in what Bateson calls an \u201cecology of mind\u201d. But what does that exactly mean? Its big overall impact can be roughly divided into at least two main aspects. First the idea of feedback or recursion, a productive circularity that transcends the (type-theoretical) whole\/part relation. Be it in temporal or in non-temporal states of affairs: whatever happens or whatever is \u201ccorrected\u201d at a particular place has a recursive and holistic impact on the total of the involved features. And second: this \u2018systemic\u2019 view has considerable effects on our strategies in the face of dealing with problems: ecological, economical, psychological ones. If we take the (theoretical) concept of an \u201cecology\u201d as a paradigm, the theory\/praxis distinction evidently is bound to collapse \u2013 within philosophy as well.<\/p>\n<p>The intended contribution wants to analyze and enfold the \u2018gifts\u2019 (meaning in German also poison\u2026) that a paradigm-shift along the lines of the Batesonian idea of \u201cecology\u201d has and apply them directly to innovation, problem solving and strategies of creativity. Using examples from sciences, arts or architecture, the lecture wants to demonstrate central \u2018logical\u2019 features of an ecological revision of contemporary epistemology and show in a concrete manner how this can lead to innovative forms of acting and understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participant: Simone Mahrenholz Affiliation: University of Manitoba, Dept. of Philosophy &#038; School of Art Format: Presentation and Conversation Themes: recursion, paradigm, praxis Professional academic philosophy is still in the beginning phase of dealing productively with Gregory Bateson. In particular his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/?page_id=709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709\/revisions\/712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-cybernetics.org\/2012\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}