This is a fresh, new look at cooperative inquiry - just what a research project I’m involved with needs at the moment! I particularly love the comment about mistaking research for one’s life! Oh, how close can we go?
This is delightful. Thank you for this terminology: "extended epistemology." Epistemology was a huge part of my dissertation, with an emphasis on "how we know the world determines the kind of world we can know." My focus is on embodied sacramental phenomenology, that is, experiencing the felt states of the sacred within us and within Nature. I hope we can continue the dialogue, and if you are interested, possibly collaborate. I have a workshop on this coming up on June 21. Please check it out here: https://globalsvadharma.substack.com/p/the-universe-and-you-wokeshopsworkshops?r=6hh86
Are you familiar with Goethe's approach to Nature? Your work sounds very resonant with Goethe's. An accessible discussion of his approach can be found in Henri Bortoft's "The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Participation in Nature." Goethe's approach got shoved aside by modern scientists. Thank you for basically restoring it, whether you knew you were doing so or not.
Yes, I know of Goethe’s work and have Bortof’s books on my shelves, possibly not studied as closely as they might be! My colleagues at Schumacher College have drawn more fully on Goethe than have I. The origins of living cosmos panpsychism go back to Spinoza. I do think there’s a very strong resonance as you point out.
Peter,
This is a fresh, new look at cooperative inquiry - just what a research project I’m involved with needs at the moment! I particularly love the comment about mistaking research for one’s life! Oh, how close can we go?
This is delightful. Thank you for this terminology: "extended epistemology." Epistemology was a huge part of my dissertation, with an emphasis on "how we know the world determines the kind of world we can know." My focus is on embodied sacramental phenomenology, that is, experiencing the felt states of the sacred within us and within Nature. I hope we can continue the dialogue, and if you are interested, possibly collaborate. I have a workshop on this coming up on June 21. Please check it out here: https://globalsvadharma.substack.com/p/the-universe-and-you-wokeshopsworkshops?r=6hh86
Thank you. Your work looks very interesting. We have been using cooperative inquiry to explore River as sentient, and this epistemology has been a huge part of that. You can see from the rest of Learning how Land Speaks and also papers at peterreason.net esp https://www.peterreason.net/wp-content/uploads/Extending-co-operative-inquiry-beyond-the-human-ontopoetic-inquiry-with-rivers.pdf and https://www.peterreason.net/wp-content/uploads/Learning-how-Rivers-speak.pdf
Are you familiar with Goethe's approach to Nature? Your work sounds very resonant with Goethe's. An accessible discussion of his approach can be found in Henri Bortoft's "The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Participation in Nature." Goethe's approach got shoved aside by modern scientists. Thank you for basically restoring it, whether you knew you were doing so or not.
Yes, I know of Goethe’s work and have Bortof’s books on my shelves, possibly not studied as closely as they might be! My colleagues at Schumacher College have drawn more fully on Goethe than have I. The origins of living cosmos panpsychism go back to Spinoza. I do think there’s a very strong resonance as you point out.