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‘ THIS is Produced by a Brain‐Process!’ Wittgenstein, Transparency and Psychology Today
Author(s) -
Standish Paul
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00831.x
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , process (computing) , sociology , epistemology , higher education , philosophy , media studies , computer science , political science , law , operating system
This paper examines sections of W ittgenstein's P hilosophical I nvestigations with a view to exposing trail‐effects of psychology in educational and social practice today. These are seen in understandings of the relations between mind and body, and language and thought, and their influence is identified in such contemporary preoccupations as accounting transparency and the new science of happiness. A W ittgensteinian critique is offered, with attention paid to the idea that ‘nothing is hidden’. Finally a question is raised as to how far it is the imperviousness of these practices to criticism that is the key to understanding them.