COLLECTION NAME:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Peter G. Ossorio Collection
Title:
The Society for Descriptive Psychology Master, Part 2
Title Type:
Proper Title
Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
color films (visual works)
Genre:
lectures
Date Created:
1990
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 videocassette (39 min., 54 sec.)
Form:
VHS
Abstract:
A recorded lecture of Peter Ossorio in which he discusses topics including the human condition, behavior and knowledge domains, infinitely repeating schemas, inconsistency, aliens, and the real world.
Note:
00:00:00 Video appears to cut in in the middle of Ossorio discussing the world as a human construction. 00:00:37 Ossorio begins part three of the lecture discussing the Myth of Atlas and what he stands on, and what that stands on, and so on, connecting it to the idea of a schema and what in the real world operate like kind of schema. 00:03:47 Ossorio brings up knowledge as an example. 00:05:20 Ossorio discusses the variations on how people know. He connects this to theories of perception that make use of cues. 00:06:17 Ossorio uses "what good is that?" and "what's the value of that?" and "what does that mean?" and so on as another examples of a schema that infinitely repeats. 00:10:28 Ossorio discusses detail as a less familiar variation on this kind of schema. 00:11:02 Ossorio discusses the ways in which people have evaded the issues of infinitely repeating schemas and the need for limiting cases to alleviate the fundamental repetition of these instances. 00:15:03 Ossorio discusses what implications can be drawn from this including: the domain of knowledge is embedded in the domain of behavior; knowledge is not an adequate basis for behavioral possibilities; and things are not simply the way people think them to be. 00:19:23 Ossorio shifts the topic back to states of affair and behavior which he discusses in Part 1 and invites the idea of reality restrains to connect it to the current topic. 00:20:29 Ossorio discusses the purpose of the real world. 00:22:00 Ossorio discusses if this is the best people can do. 00:23:45 Ossorio discusses alternatives using the example of imaginary friends in childhood and adulthood. He then connects this to imaginary numbers. 00:27:30 Ossorio provides another example: science. 00:29:49 Ossorio closes his lecture on the idea that less consistency is more behavior dependent with the example of aliens. 00:33:44 Ossorio ends his lecture. 00:34:03 An audience member asks a question about the tortoise and Achilles. 00:35:01 Another audience shares a personal anecdote 00:35:49 An audience member asks for an example about a system not being consistent with the real world that helps space exploration. 00:36:39 An audience member discusses a book that connects to the previous question. 00:37:08 An audience member asks about inconsistency. 00:39:54 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Subject Topic:
Psychology
Subject Topic:
Experience
Subject Topic:
Human behavior
Subject Topic:
Knowledge, Theory of--Psychological aspects
Subject Topic:
Extraterrestrial beings
Subject Topic:
Schemas (Psychology)
Subject Topic:
Descriptive psychology
Subject Name:
Ossorio, Peter G.
Identifier:
U183071307116_narv_ossorioPeter_37-29_societyForDescriptivePsychologyPart2_a.mp4
Physical Location:
COU:3855 | Box: 37 | Tape: 29
Related Item:
The Society for Descriptive Psychology Master, Part 1
Related Item Type:
constituent
Related Item Identifier:
U183071307182_narv_ossorioPeter_37-28_societyForDescriptivePsychologyPart1_a.mp4
Date Captured:
Spring, 2024
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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