Language Insufficiency Hypothesis: The Genealogy of Language Failure

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I published A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis this month, and this is one of a series of videos summarising the content. In this segment, I’m discussing Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency

In this video, I touch on Plato to Barthes and Foucault. Derrida gets no love, and I mention bounded rationality, but not Simon. I discuss Steven Pinker’s dissent in more detail in a later chapter.

Below, I’ve included some artefacts from the book.

Image: Chapter 1: Page 1
Image: Genealogy of Insufficiency: A Historical Trajectory
Image: Table of Contents

The Matter with Things TOC

Given the number of posts related to Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things, I created a content index followed by a PDF copy of the table of contents for no reason in particular. I hope this doesn’t infringe on any copyrights.

Introduction

Part I

  1. Some preliminaries: how we got here
  2. Attention
  3. Perception
  4. Judgment
  5. Apprehension
  6. Emotional and social intelligence
  7. Cognitive intelligence
  8. Creativity
  9. What schizophrenia and autism can tell us

Part II

  • 10 What is truth?
  • Science & truth
  • 11 Science’s claims on truth
  • 12 The science of life: a study in left hemisphere capture
  • 13 Institutional science and truth
  • Reason & truth
  • 14 Reason’s claim on truth
  • 15 Reason’s progeny
  • 16 Logical paradox: a further study in left hemisphere capture
  • Intuition, imagination & truth
  • 17 Intuition’s claim on truth
  • 18 The untimely demise of intuition
  • 19 Intuition, imagination, and the unveiling of the world

Part III

Other

I may move this to a page rather than a post. Time will tell.