“At the July 2013 Integral Theory Conference in San Francisco, Giorgio Placenza met with Roy Bhaskar, well known ontological philosopher of Critical Realism and Keynote Speaker at the Conference. Bhaskar was a founding member of the Centre for Critical Realism and the International Association of Critical Realism. He is currently employed at the Institute of Education in London where he is working on the application of CR to Peace Studies. Placenza has published in Integral Leadership Review and has maintained a wide-ranging interest that impinges on various aspects of reality, aspects such as the mind-body problem, philosophy, cosmology and physics.”

I don’t understand why people equate coming to terms with (and so taking responsibility for) our all-too-human limits of grasping things (our inability to be other than manipulating-human-animals) with anthropocentrism, for me such acknowledgments are deflating/decentering in the tradition of the 3 blows to narcissism dealt by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, what’s up with that people?

see also:
http://knowledge-ecology.com/2013/09/26/infratheory-and-metatheory/