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«Working from studies of social interaction, George Herbert Mead added to process-based pragmatism the thesis that mind emerges from social communicative actions. On the side of 'continental' philosophy, Henri Bergson arrived at a process metaphysics again based on an investigation of phenomenal experience, like James and Dewey. But while Dewey and other pragmatists put the process-character of being partly into the hand of human agents and their practical and theoretical interpretations of an ongoing situation, Bergson argued that the process-character of being is precisely out of our cognitive reach, at least in so far as we try to conceptualize what we experience.»

- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/

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  1. aridedOctober 2, 2016 at 4:27 PM

    This dichotomy between Dewey's interpretative view and Bergson's non-cognitive view shows up again in the discussion of mesophatics (e.g. Blumer talks about interpretation in the "symbolic" case, but not in the "gesture" case). If we want to expand that section some more connections w/ the authors mentioned above would be useful.

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