Tag: George Eliot

• “Peacemakers” sidebar: Eliot’s egoic ontology

  A short post to accompany the Primitive Peacemakers series, with some quotes from Middlemarch that otherwise wouldn’t make it in. Eliot repeatedly returns to the observation that individuals’ sense of the world—from morality to category to truth—is by default egocentric. This, in my read, is a logical extension of pragmatism from the level of cultural…

  suspendedreason

  April 24, 2023

  Blog

  egocentric ontology, George Eliot, meaning, Middlemarch, perception, pragmatism, provincialism

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 2: Polytheism & an Ecology of Practice

  Previously. Main takeaways: Negotiating with those who share your frame is straightforward. The potential for agreement—for reaching a new coordinative equilibrium—is built into the shared frame and in some sense pre-arranged. To agree to a frame, or definition of a situation, is to have already preemptively struck a deal. It is when frames are contested,…

  suspendedreason

  April 14, 2023

  Essays

  Bruce Lee, cognitive science, David Chapman, ecology of practice, Erving Goffman, fitness, frame problem, George Eliot, Herman Melville, heuristics, Hubert Dreyfus, Jake Orthwein, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, maps, metarationality, metasystematicity, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, mood, mood affiliation, No Free Lunch Theorem, PIG optimality, postrationalism, postrationality, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rationality, Sarah Perry