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Lester E. Embree

Human Studies 40 (1):1-6 (2017)

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  1. Environment, Technology, Justification: Reflective Analyses.Lester Embree - 2008 - Zeta Books.
    This text assumes that reflection on the environment requires consideration of the role of technology and that reflection on technology cannot responsibly omit considering the environment. Furthermore, reflection on the environment-as-encountered and technology-as-encountered and the correlative types of encountering cannot stop before facing the problems of justifying action and valuing as well as cognition. Eleven reflective analyses are included and it is hoped that discussion of them in small groups will not only foster deeper insight into these issues but also (...)
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  • The Constitution of Basic Culture.Lester Embree - 2001 - Phainomena (35-36).
    This essay has two parts. In the first, Husserl's account of categorial forming and Schutz's account of common-sense constructs are used to sketch an interpretationist theory of culture. In the second part, the question is raised of whether that theory is adequate to account for cultural phenomena and the negative answer is supported with a sketch of the pre-conceptual constitution of intrinsic and extrinsic values and uses in valuational and volitional processes of secondary passivity. This stratum below thinking and concepts (...)
     
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