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A contemporary philosopher and novelist, Rebecca Goldstein, defends philosophy as a discipline whose task is “…to render our human points of view ever more coherent.” Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>, April 14, 2014. In order to do that she says, in the same article, that philosophy must patrol “troubled conceptual borders.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This perspective attracted me. A\u00a0discipline that walks between worlds, the worlds of physics\u00a0and that of biology, say, or that law and justice, literature and culture, anthropology and privacy\u00a0or of worlds within worlds, say, between baseball fans and football fans, or materialist scientists and vitalist scientists. It is, as used to be said, the queen of the sciences.<\/p>\n Her examples in the article are abstruse, philosophical all, but her point extends well beyond the the lives of the mind\u00a0and into the streets. Who negotiates the place between color theory as a branch of optics and the application of it by a painter? Who walks along the lines Wagner proposed long ago, those lines attempting to make a wholistic art form, one using music, painting, literature, poetry, acting all in one, a meta-art? Who mediates between the anti-free will and the free will camp in the borderlands of psychology, experimental psychology and neurology?<\/p>\n Long ago in my college days I found sort of border realm thinking\u00a0very attractive. I took psych theory, anthro theory, soc theory, philosophy and might one day have gotten around to econ. My interest lay in the roots of these disciplines, in their founding ideas, how those shaped their work, limiting them while defining a discipline’s proper area of study. These areas of thought still fascinate me though I have less opportunity to investigate them.<\/p>\n Not even sure what I’m saying here, just throwing up a flag that says, hey, I’d like to talk more about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Summer Moon A contemporary philosopher and novelist, Rebecca Goldstein, defends philosophy as a discipline whose task is “…to render our human points of view ever more … Continue reading Border Patrol<\/span>