My debt is to Anderson (and Heraclitus), not McLuhan
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Posted by John Furedy on 01:28:05 2008/03/29
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Good paper. posted by Rank
Rank,
Thanks for the compliment on the paper.
By the time I got to Toronto (1967) McLuhan was no londer around, but in any case my realist approach to psychology (see, e.g., http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/furedy/realism_appl.htm) was contrary to his more metphorical, instrumentalist approach (which, however, has been taken up by most of my "cognitive psychology" colleagues).
My debt, instead, is to the Sydney University undergraduate education that I received at a time and place where students enjoyed complete academic freedom, though no academic power (no lnfluence on the curriculum, faculty hiring, etc.), and the education, more specifically, that I recieved in highly structured courses in psychology (4 years), philosophy (4 years), and modern history (2 years).
The university at that time, was greatly influenced by John Anderson to whom I have decicated papers like http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/furedy/Papers/ra/An%20epistemologically%20arrogant.doc. Anderson, and his intellectual hero, the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, has a lot to teach those who share Sharnansky's concept of a free society, and the idea that freedom of speech is the cornerstone of freedom (and genuine democracy). All the best, John
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