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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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      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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. skybrian‏ @skybrian 28 Apr 2019
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      I'd like to read more about these studies. Any recommendations?

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Apr 2019
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      Unfortunately there seems to be no good starting point. The field often seems willfully obscure and self-referential and jargon-heavy. This is one recent study I liked a lot:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1019967674464563201 …

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      “YES❗️ — that’s the thesis” Two PhDs accomplished in the same instant: • physicist: first ever observation of multiband superconductivity in PbMo₆S₈ • ethnomethodologist: first ever ethnographical observation of an experimental physics discovery https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/39449076/Sormani_2011.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1531996510&Signature=teWjjGbg5wOsqr4l1Q4UymPYrfA%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DThe_Jubilatory_YES_On_the_Instant_Apprai.pdf … pic.twitter.com/2wB9lskzmG
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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Apr 2019
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      From the same special issue, I found useful the Sharrock et al. paper and the Bovet et al. one. https://www.zhbluzern.ch/seiten/ethnographic-studies/ethnographic-studies-issue-no-12-2011/ …

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 28 Apr 2019
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          The Sharrock et al. paper observes a group of biologists using a software system that’s supposed to help them build an ontology, and the difficulties they encountered.

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        3. skybrian‏ @skybrian 28 Apr 2019
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          Thanks!

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