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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Chase Joynt

      🧵 A thread about a new film, rationality, being trans in 1958, ethnomethodology, geekiness, meta-rationalism, and how to do science better. “Framing Agnes” is by filmmaker @ChaseJoynt and sociologist Kristen Schilt… h/t @saul, @pdbrookerhttps://twitter.com/ChaseJoynt/status/1122149352456146944 …

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      We are in PRINT! #Tribeca2019 #FramingAgnes @Tribeca // https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-transgender-documentary-tribeca-film-fest-20190425-story.html … pic.twitter.com/EBYza7LIeF
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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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      “Ethnomethodology” is the study of rationality in practice. A key chapter in the first book in the field was a 1958 “case study” of Agnes, a transwoman. It’s a much easier read than most ethno; it discusses in mostly-normal English how she coped with everyday hassles she faced.pic.twitter.com/WUyhfnL40T

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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      Striking how contemporary the 1958 trans experience sounds. And, in two dramatic plot twists, more than Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, let on. One he discovered later and revealed in an appendix. The other has been revealed only now: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-transgender-documentary-tribeca-film-fest-20190425-story.html …pic.twitter.com/V5YMB3Uzjo

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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      Both cis & trans people have to do an enormous amount of skilled work to be properly male or female in the eyes of others: doing-being-male or doing-being-female. This is typically easier for cis adults because it is learned in childhood. Not always easy for cis children though…pic.twitter.com/EqIMqXpcdW

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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      Learning to do-being-female or to do-being-male in adulthood requires an explicit, self-aware meta perspective, whereas cis people who learn it childhood do it largely tacitly. This is where the story starts to connect with rationality and rationalism…pic.twitter.com/rBTjY25U8Z

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          Learning social skills as a nerd/geek/aspie in adulthood is relevantly similar to learning to perform gender as a trans person in adulthood. We’re forced to use explicit rational cognition, where neurotypicals did huge amounts of tacit work in childhood. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html pic.twitter.com/NbfS1m0qWt

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          If you were a nerd/geek/aspie in high school, @paulg’s essay “Why Nerds Are Unpopular” may be powerfully therapeutic. His answer: because we had more important things to do than practicing social skills all day every day. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html pic.twitter.com/O6d1rH6UAX

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        4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          Some of us also couldn’t be bothered to learn the fussy details of gender performance and were vaguely “non-binary.” A subject for another time… Agnes, like most trans people, took her femaleness as a metaphysical, absolute, eternal Truth, with no pragmatic evidence relevant.pic.twitter.com/lGpevBzBYq

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        5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          “Passing” depends on “willingness to deal in ‘good reasons’, i.e. her ability to furnish reasonable justifications (explanations).” This is an essential ethno insight: that “everyday reasonableness” consists in accountability to give acceptable reasons for actions.pic.twitter.com/4HIXU8iX5W

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        6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          What *counts as* an acceptable reason is itself a matter that, in general, must be negotiated using acceptable reasons, in a potentially unbounded descending chain of justifications. Was this, actually, a caprese salad?https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1022510354620919808 …

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          The everyday world is inherently nebulous, so category boundaries are always unclear. Interpretation, often involving collaborative negotiation, is always required. This is not about ambiguous language. "Caprese salad" has only one meaning. What *counts as* one is nebulous. pic.twitter.com/2qxEXLvjTy
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        7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          For Garfinkel, Agnes’ practical problems of passing raise the theoretical one of the relationship between “mere reasonableness” and technical rationality. Ethnomethodological insights here are the ground for my thinking about meta-rationality and how to do rationality better.pic.twitter.com/T9fytl1HFx

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        8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          Garfinkel and his students replaced philosophical questions about rationality with an empirical program of observing technical professionals at work. They found that formal rationality relies on “mere reasonableness” to an extraordinary extent and in unexpected ways.pic.twitter.com/7BYs4VFZzD

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        9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          On the second page of his Agnes study, Garfinkel can’t help satirizing rationalism (the idea that formal rationality is the essence of proper thought), and I can’t help passing along this preposterous deadpan joke:pic.twitter.com/9X5B3G6zeI

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        10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          My program starts from ethnomethodological studies of technical professionals, observing how “reasonableness” & formal rationality intertwine in doing-being-rational, the performance of scientificality—not as a sham (though it sometimes is)— But to ask: how can we do it better?

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        11. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Apr 2019
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          Meta-rationality requires self-awareness about ways you are doing rationality, making explicit some tacit skills you learned in high school physics and that are now invisible to you. In the same way doing-gender is mostly invisible to cis people, because the skill has compiled.

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