ABSTRACT
This new philosophical position also has startling consequences for
our conceptions of language, intelligence, meaning, the emotions and
subjectivity, as these are adjusted to become independent of the shape
shifting sensory lode. The pedagogical impact of these transformations
becomes evident in the design process studios. A defining moment for
many students, this is where preconceptions are undermined, assumptions
redefined and new habits acquired. Demonstrating that philosophy really
isn’t as pure or remote from practice as some philosophers would like to
think, it is this series of fundamental reappraisals that taken as a whole,
could be used to question the curricula and strategies adopted to deal
with the very earliest stages of general education as well as in many
other fields of study.
