Bio

<aside> 💡 Prof Alicia Juarrero is the founder and president of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College. Prof Juarrero has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a visiting research scholar. She is the author of Dynamics in Action (2008), Context Changes Everything (2023), and Why Context Matters (2025). Her philosophy of science research primarily focuses on the causal power of context-sensitive complexity theory and dynamical systems theory.

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https://youtu.be/cE7-2xJdIcA

References

https://archive.mlst.ai/paper/why-creativity-cannot-be-interpolated/

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5600/Context-Changes-EverythingHow-Constraints-Create

https://youtu.be/cr6aBaXvRY0?si=eOTQXiKfbm4PMfvs

https://youtu.be/a14Q1-q-NP8?si=ObJeXgL7g5l_r5yZ

https://youtu.be/nVmz3r1dSzg?si=4MADihEW93e0x8ee

General questions

• Why did you say in the book ‘Where Did Anglo-American Philosophy Go Wrong?’ and not ‘Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong?’ Was this an editorial decision or is there specific reason for this wording?
  • On an anecdotal note - despite being trained in the tradition of analytic philosophy, how did you overcome this positivistic bias?
• Perhaps one of your main concepts is ‘causality as constraint,’ where constraints have a sort of causal power? Or Simply put, how is “constraint” a “cause”? (Juarrero, 2025, p. 23)
  • What is the ontological status of constraint and context?
• Can a computational system account for context, or do you ascribe that ability solely to humans?
  • Or put differently is context fungible?

Why Context Matters: Or, Where Did Anglo-American Philosophy Go Wrong?

• Why did you decide to write a “history of philosophy” book? Do you think such an analysis is necessary to understand our epistemological zetigeist?
• Apropos thick concepts, how did Philippa Foot overcome the fact-value distinction problem? (Juarrero, 2025, p. 106)
• Do you think this problems you analyse regarding ignoring constraint and mereology is still the case in analytic philosophy? It seems to me in the philosophy of mind at least there’s deep absorption of phenomenology in contemporary academic anglophone philosophy?

Why western science and philosophy cannot deal with the relations between parts and wholes - Dialectical Systems