Category: philosophical counseling
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Searching is not search
Nicholas Carr begins his blog post, ‘The Searchers,’ as follows, When we talk about “searching” these days, we’re almost always talking about using Google to find something online. That’s quite a twist for a word that has long carried existential connotations, that has been bound up in our sense of what it means to be conscious…
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E.F. Schumacher and post-industrial cottage industries
Since I have been corresponding more frequently with individuals at Schumacher College and The New Economics Institute (formerly known as The Schumacher Society), it seemed a good idea to read E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a collection of thematically related essays on economics, ethics, and the nature of organizations. Published in…
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New website
Since moving to rural Appalachia at the beginning of January, I have been working on a new website. Last night I finished the project. To visit the new site, you can click on andrewjamestaggart.com. For the foreseeable future, the purpose of this WordPress blog will be to post occasional reflections as well as once-weekly YouTube videos…
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Gift economy worksheet for philosophical practice
The following is the latest version of the gift economy worksheet I’ve begun going through with new conversation partners. It’s been quite illuminating to go through the process of inquiring with another with the common purpose of reaching mutual understanding. * Overview This worksheet is the result of about 2 years of thinking about how…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 