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20Living in a Wittgensteinian world: Beyond theory to a poetics of practicesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 26 (3). 1996.As human beings, we share many historically developed, language-game interwoven, public forms of life. Due to the joint, dialogically responsive nature of all social life within such forms, we cannot as individuals just act as we please; our forms of life exert a normative influence on what we can say and do. They act as a backdrop against which all our claims to knowledge are judged as acceptable or not. As a result, it is not easy to articulate their inadequacies in a clear and forceful manner…Read more
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42Dialogical realities: The ordinary, the everyday, and other strange new worldsJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 27 (2&3). 1997.We tend to seek theoretical explanations of our own human behavior, to understand everything we do as arising, computationally, from a systematic set of simple laws, principles, or rules. Here, influenced by the later Wittgenstein, I argue that the very possibility of the kind of talk we use in our theorizing arises out of the joint or dialogical activities in which we engage in our practical lives together, and only has its meaning within the context of such activities – thus we cannot turn it …Read more
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499Consciousness and self-consciousness: Inner games and alternative realitiesIn G. Underwood (ed.), Aspects of Consciousness, Volume 3: Awareness and Self-Awareness, Academic Press. 1983.
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9Towards a third revolution in psychology: From inner mental representations to dialogically-structured social practicesIn David Bakhurst & Stuart Shanker (eds.), Jerome Bruner: Language, Culture, Self, Sage Publications. pp. 167--183. 2001.
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29Power on the margins: A new place for intellectuals to be (review)Argumentation 9 (1): 95-113. 1995.This paper is concerned with rethinking the nature of social life in terms of how it appears — not to us academics at the centre of it, as consisting in a system, or a plurality of systems -but how it might appear from a position more in on the margins, at those moments when ordinary people must relate themselves to each other, unsystematically and practically. To do this, we must also rethink the nature of language and thought as possessing within these moments, a formative or creative characte…Read more
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84 history of the human sciences vol. 7 no. 1 3 this development in social psychology can be seen both here (Gergen, 1985) and in a large number of subsequent publications and collections, too numerous to cite, in which Gergen has played a major role. That he is not alone can be seen in the work of (review)History of the Human Sciences 7 (1). 1994.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Continental Philosophy |