This is another post in the ‘externalising / explicitating’ box – very much not in the ‘final take’ box. The goal is basically just to express why I’ve been so sceptical of social psychology as a subfield for so long, en route to a qualified retraction of that scepticism. I’ve been sceptical of social psychology […]| Negative Catallactics
In the appendix to Chapter 1 of The grammar of society, Bicchieri presents a formal apparatus for modelling norms: For ease of formal treatment, think of a norm as a function that maps one’s expectations concerning the behavior of others into what one “ought to do.” In other words, a norm regulates behavior conditional on […]| Negative Catallactics
This is, with apologies to anyone actually reading, yet another “thinking out loud” post covering ground I’ve already discussed countless times before. The goal is to yet again review how I understand the overall project here. The blog’s project has shifted and warped a lot over the years. I currently understand the core of the […]| Negative Catallactics
A very quick post, in which I want to (non-exhaustively) distinguish three kinds of norm that might be the object of our analysis, then very briefly make some remarks about Cristina Bicchieri’s treatment of sanctions. First kind of norm: the norms associated with semantic content. This is the focus of Brandom’s work. Brandom, as a […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok. The last post was very ‘stream of consciousness’ and chaotic. In this post I want to slow down a little, and spell out in very slightly more detail some of what I take my metaethical commitme…| Negative Catallactics
Ok. I take it that the basic Brandomian inferentialist account has something like the following structure. [I am sure I am going to get a lot wrong here; I’m after the broad brush picture, which …| Negative Catallactics
So – this post is again really just repeating stuff I’ve already said – but it’s nevertheless also kicking off the project I described in my last post. Start with sanctions. As I …| Negative Catallactics
Ok. One of my countless ‘trying to get things straighter in my head, as I read’ posts. I’m trying to get to grips with metaethics. It’s early days yet! As I said a few posts ago, I find Mic…| Negative Catallactics
In an expansive response to Perry Anderson’s critique of international law in NLR 143, Martti Koskenniemi counterposes to headline rulings on crimes against humanity the opaque, pervasive network of techniques that constitutes the legal infrastructure of global capitalism, shaping our unequal world-social relations and how we imagine them.| New Left Review: current issue
Following his analytic survey of socialist economic theory and practice in the last number of NLR, Aaron Benanav sets out a design for institutions that could structure an economic democracy beyond capital accumulation and waged labour. A novel dual-currency system, elected investment boards, worker self-management and trans-sectoral coordination, responsive to the broadest social goals.| New Left Review: current issue
Ok. I’m not sure exactly how crackpot this is, but I’m going to propose a concept/framework: ‘regimes of incompatibility’. The post will come in two parts. I’ll start by outlining a cra…| Negative Catallactics
