Vygotsky Podcast31 Jul 2020

(S1,Ep9) Conducting Vygotskian Research (background)

Chat 3 with Nikolai Veresov, who provides a range of ways to understand dialectics -- and its role in explaining the relationship between lower and higher mental functions. (Originally published February 15, 2020 at Chats about CHT http://tiny.cc/kmylsz)

Highlights include:

0:30 - What does 'Hegelian method' mean?

3:30 - Dialectics as a kind of predictive logic, and a discussion of 'quantitative change' sparking 'qualitative leaps'

7:00 - Mechanical systems vs. Organical systems

9:10 - What does "qualitative reorganizations" mean?

10:15 - Dialectics as a "philosophical method of thinking about organical systems given that they are always in the Process of Development" (Being and Becoming)

12:05 - Vygotsky discovered how to indirectly apply this philosophical method to psychology

13:45 - How original was Vygotsky's breakthrough?

16:46 - How are lower and higher mental functions (LMF/HMF) related to each other?

19:00 - An example: the development of voluntary ("or cultural") attention

23:15 - Possible ways to help HMFs develop

26:00 - Are social relations a type of quantitative "heat" that qualitatively changes the "water"?

The second part of this conversation is here: http://tiny.cc/g9c8jz

References:

"The transition from quantity to quality: A neglected causal mechanism in accounting for social evolution" - https://www.pnas.org/content/97/23/12926

“Higher mental functions are not built on top of elementary processes, like some kind of second storey, but are new psychological systems comprising a complex nexus of elementary functions that, as part of a new system, being themselves to act in accordance with new laws” Vygotsky, L.S. (1984). Sobraniye sochinenii, Vol. 6, p.58

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