This subsite of The Dooyeweerd Pages contains discussions on how Dooyeweerdian thinking might link to thinking outside the Dooyeweerdian community, providing comment thereon and itself being refined by such thinking. Dooyeweerd believed:
"It is a matter of life and death for this young philosophy that ... scholars in all fields of science seek to put it to work in their own specialty." Herman Dooyeweerd, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Vol I, p.vii.
Recent pages, worth looking at:
Much mainstream philosophy moves forward by reacting to earlier thought. Dooyeweerd was not content merely to react to other thought, because it narrows the thinking down. He wanted an understanding that respects all reality {Note 1} - including the reality of our activity of understanding. Call his desire 'totalising'? Call it 'holistic'? Whatever! Since Dooyeweerd started from pre-theoretical experience rather than a philosophical theory, and did so in a critical way that recognises the diversity and coherence of that experience, it is not surprising that almost everything that has been discussed by other thinkers through the ages is within the remit of Dooyeweerd's thinking {Note 2}. So it is no surprise to find echoes reverberating back and forth between Dooyeweerd and many other thinkers. The echo affirms the thought of the other thinker, but at the same time critiques it and enriches it. (This might surprise some followers of Dooyeweerd who see his thought as antithetical to other thought.)
So my approach to commenting on other thinking is to both affirm and question that thinking. Affirmation is appropriate because, in a multi-aspectual cosmos created by God, almost all thought contains useful or valid insights. Questioning is appropriate because all thought is contaminated by flawed presuppositions or even human sin and pride, and is based on flawed worldviews and paradigms. For a longer discussion of comparing with other thinkers, click here. We look for:
This subsite is an attempt to separate this comment from the main pages, for sake of clarity. There are still bits of comment in the main drawer which, I hope, will gradually be moved in here. But at present we have comments on the following:
- Actor-Network Theory - Brief comparison of Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory with Dooyeweerd's ideas.
- Artificial Intelligence - The AI Question; A Dooyeweerdian View
- Apel - In some ways, Karl-Otto Apel's Towards a Transformation in Philosophy sets out questions that Dooyeweerd provides at least one answer for, namely the transcendental preconditions for argumentation, logic and the like.
- Berger & Luckmann's Social Construction of Reality
- Bergson - A Dooyeweerdian Perspective --* New 7 September 2017 **-
- Bernstein - Initial discussion of Beyond Objectivism & Relativism
- Bhaskar, Roy - Comparison between Bhaskar's Critical Realism and Dooyeweerd
- Bourdieu, Pierre - comparison with Dooyeweerd
- Buber, Martin - especially his I-Thou insight into the ethical aspects, and Dooyeweerd's criticism of Buber and a riposte to Dooyeweerd.
- Bunge, Mario - Bunge's Ontology of Systems Genera and Emergence
- Checkland's Soft Systems Thinking - A few pages comparing with Dooyeweerd's ideas
- Choi, Yong-Joon - 'Dialogue and Antithesis'not only a study of Dooyeweerd's transcendental critique, and a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Dooyeweerdian thought, but an application of the Dooyeweerdian critique to Korean thought and culture.
- Churchman, C. West - systems thinking and science
- Comparisons - On comparing Dooyeweerd with others
- Critical Realism - summary; see also Bhaskar
- Davidson, Donald - Donald Davidson's work is interesting to Dooyeweerdian scholars and vice versa. Some areas of mutual interest, but also some sharp differences. Dooyeweerd can enrich Davidson.
- Dawkins - On his 'Selfish Gene' concept, perspectives, and how to discern which perspectives are valid and useful.
- Distributed Cognition - a Dooyeweerdian Approach
- Dennett, Daniel - Brief notes comparing Dennett's Intentional Stance with Dooyeweerdian aspects
- Dwelling rather than Trampling on the earth: How Dooyeweerd might have responded
- Singer, E.A. - comparison of his multi-aspectual view of science with that of Dooyeweerd
- Emergence Theory - discussion of various emergence thinkers, showing which portions of Dooyeweerd would support their ideas, and which would critique or enrich them, 2011
- Floridi, Luciano - Floridi's 18 Open Problems for the Philosophy of Information
- Foucault, Michel - some of his main ideas (summarised), situated in relation to Dooyeweerd: affirmation, critique and enrichment; see also Regimes of Truth.
- Frame & Coppes' criticism of Dooyeweerd
- Frege - a few points of comparison
- Giddens, Anthony - Giddens' Structuration Theory and Dooyeweerd
- Grounded Theory - A brief initial comparison with Glaser and Strauss' Grounded Theory
- Habermas, Jürgen - A few pages discussing Habermas' ideas
- Hartmann, Nicolai - Comparison with Dooyeweerd's thought
- Hegel - Comparison of Hegel and Dooyeweerd, partial, 2005
- Heidegger, Martin - Comparison with Dooyeweerd on some points, from 2003 onwards
- Heidegger, Martin - Rudi Hayward's discussion of Theory and the Everyday in Being and Time, 2002
- Hermeneutic Cycle - a Dooyeweerdian discussion, critique and enrichment, 2013
- Hirst, G. - Addressing Problems with Existence Orientation (in AI), 2006
- James, William - and the Two-Minds Problem, 2013
- Langemeyer on Dooyeweerd
- Lifeworld - a tabular comparison of Habermas' and Dooyeweerd's notions of lifeworld (everyday life); early.
- Lifeworld - a tabular comparison of Habermas' and Dooyeweerd's notions of lifeworld (everyday life).
- Enriching Critical Theory - Overview of how Dooyeweerdian ideas can enrich and extend those in Critical Theory, especially those centred on Habermas.
- A comparison of accounts of agreement and breakdown in communication.
- Luhmann and the nature of distinction
- Lyotard - The Postmodernism Condition - and Dooyeweerd, 2009
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice - and Dooyeweerd, 2016
- Morgan, G. - Organizational Metaphors as given me by S.D. Green. The metaphors seem remarkably close to Dooyeweerdian aspects, 1999
- Orlikowski, Wanda - especially re. The Duality of Technology
- Parsons, Talcott - Bruce Wearne's discussion of Parsons' structural functionalism and theory of society from a Dooyeweerdian perspective, 2002
- Patterns - About patterns, and Alexander's Pattern Language, 2001
- Peirce, C.S. - rudimentary comparison with Dooyeweerd, 2010
- Phenomenology - a tiny note from Roy Clouser of similarity with Dooyeweerd, 2005
- Pluralism, W Watson - On four Types of Pluralism by W. Watson (1990). Might Dooyeweerd add a fifth that integrates Watson's four?, 1999
- Polanyi, Michael - a comparison with Dooyeweerd by Gareth Jones - a helpful table showing how similar they are, 2002
- Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness, the - BBC Reith Lecture on Sustainable Development, 17 May 2000. Suggests how Dooyeweerdian ideas might help us understand sustainability, science, theory, intuition, wisdom, harmony and working with nature.
- Post-Structuralism (Foucault, etc.) - and Dooyeweerd, 2004
- Reid, Thomas - Reid's 'Common-Sense' (Scottish) Realism and Dooyeweerd, 2005
- Regimes of Truth as in Foucault - some ideas from Lucas Introna and my comparison with Dooyeweerd, 2001
- Runner, Evan - Tribute to Herman Dooyeweerd, 1977
- Schutz, Alfred - Alfred Schutz meets Herman Dooyeweerd; person-person relationships, 2006
- Social Construction of Technology - Pinch & Bijker's idea: Dooyeweerdian comment
- Searle, John - 'The Construction of Social Reality' and Dooyeweerd
- Smuts, Jan - Smuts' Holism: A Dooyeweerdian View
- Spinoza - and Dooyeweerd
- Systems Thinking - Comparison with Dooyeweerd; see also Soft Systems Thinking
- Uchiyama - view of SST compared with Dooyeweerd
- On Rene van Woudenberg's Understanding of Aspects --* new 25 September 2017 *--
- Vygotsky - Comparison of Activity Theory with Dooyeweerd
- Von Baader, F. - Glenn Friesen argues there are strong similarities between Dooyeweerd and von Baader.
- Vw1
- Wenger, Etienne (Communities of Practice)
See also the more haphazard, but wonderful, original index page, which ceased to be used on 7 September 2017.
The page on Using Dooyeweerdian Thinking also furnishes examples of links with external thinking.
Notes
1. That is, as far as reality is susceptible to being understood. He found fundamental reasons why some reality, such as the human self, cannot be understood.
2. Some of it has yet to be thought through, of course, while other matters, especially to do with the juridical aspect and the state, were subjected to intensive thought by Dooyeweerd himself.
This page,
'http://www.dooy.info/ext/index.html', gives access to a collection of pages that discuss how Dooyeweerdian thought links to various thinkers. It is part of The Dooyeweerd Pages, which explain, explore and discuss Dooyeweerd's interesting philosophy. Email questions or comments would be welcome.
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Created: 20 May 2001
Last updated: 10 July 2001 link to rot. 6 February 2002 link to vigotsky. 12 February 2002 started the Habermas sub-site. 22 February 2002 link to choi/. 27 February 2002 corrected name. 11 March 2002 link to Runner's tribute. 4 April 2002 link to Latour's ANT. 26 June 2002 Polanyi. 2 August 2002 Giddens. 17 September 2002 John Searle and comparisons.html moved here with links. 12 November 2002 link to Parsons. 20 November 2002 new link to Enrich CT/Habermas, to SST, and links to Alexander's patterns. 28 November 2002 Link to Heidegger by RH, some links reordered. 1 March 2003 Choi link relocated, .nav. 3 March 2003 link to Dennett. 4 March 2003 Buber. 25 April 2003 Grounded Theory link. 28 June 2003 added what our approach looks for. 10 July 2003link to heidegger. 25 July 2003 Hartmann. 22 September 2003 von Baader link, upd Hdg. 12 November 2003 st.html. 15 June 2004 Bhaskar's Critical Realism; some rearrangement of page, plus rewrite of admin part, corrected a link. 14 August 2004 ps link. 23 August 2004 Apel. 26 January 2005 Reid, Habermas' lifeworld. 11 March 2005 SCOT. 16 April 2005 E.A.Singer and Churchman. 22 April 2005 corrected link to hab/lw.html. 11 July 2005 Spinoza. 3 October 2005 Bunge. 24 June 2006 Hirst. 9 February 2008 Frege. 29 July 2008 schutz, berger.luckmann. 12 June 2009 Luhmann + correction. 23 November 2009 wenger, buber update. 27 April 2010 more in intro. 10 July 2010 Bernstein. 23 October 2010 foucault. 21 August 2011 emergence. 7 November 2013 Donald Davidson, hermeneutic circle. 16 December 2013 james. 15 October 2014 bourdieu. 8 May 2015 duality.tgy. 24 August 2016 smuts, merleau-ponty. 4 November 2016 ai, floridi. 7 September 2017 bergson, alpha index, new .end, .nav. ----
7 September 2017 redid this index page into alphabetical order. 25 September 2017 vwoudenberg03.cmts.