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Functional Contextualism

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This exploration of functional contextualism by Stephen C. Hayes from the University of Nevada delves into the philosophy of science, emphasizing the importance of specifying assumptions and recognizing their implications. It argues that context and historical acts are pivotal for coherent reasoning and practical progress. By examining the roles of assumptions, truth criteria, and the nature of knowledge, Hayes illustrates how contextualism fosters flexibility in understanding complex issues and prioritizes effective solutions grounded in personal experience.

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  1. Functional Contextualism Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada

  2. What is Philosophy of Science? • Philosophy is a process of specifying your assumptions, detecting inconsistencies among them, and acknowledging their implications

  3. Why Does it Matter? • Concepts unplugged from their orienting assumptions lose vitality • Incoherence can lead to dead ends • Assumptions provide coherent measures of progress

  4. Stephen C. Pepper • We are not so cognitively advanced that we can deal with complexity without the guidance of underlying root metaphors, drawn from common sense

  5. Why Contextualism? • The unit: The situated, historical, purposive act • Truth criterion: successful working • Why? This is when behaviorism became “radical”

  6. Types • Descriptive: a personal experience of the participants in the whole • Functional: prediction and influence with precision, scope, and depth

  7. The Weirdest Feature • A-ontological: multiple language games are possible • It is an essential part of contextualism and of radical behaviorism • Necessary to the truth criterion

  8. The Weirdest Feature • Descriptive contextualists have used it to tear down science • But that is a kind of ontology

  9. How Do You Know? • The mind demands an answer • But there is more to us that the answer why • Consider values

  10. Where it Goes in Functional Contextualism • Keeps us focused on what works, not who is right • Keeps us flexible • Grounds knowledge in experience • But most of all …

  11. Helps Us Shut Up • When we have nothing useful to say beyond experience itself