Can Transcendental Pluralism Help Us Date Plato’s Dialogues?

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺, my developmental model, has always been strongly tied to genealogical analysis: tracing how structures of thought emerge, reorganize, and become capable of questioning their own foundations which I had largely to derive from following authors through their writings (given that it was the only data source easily available).

I think this opens up an interesting direction for developmental psychology. Rather than treating genealogy or postmodern archaeology primarily as interpretive methods, we can ask whether their historical patterns can be underpinned by empirically testable developmental structures.

My recent work on Plato is one small example: looking at whether changes in philosophical thought are also visible in changes in the syntactic organization of his most complex sentences.

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻—and genealogy can give developmental psychology a much deeper historical field of evidence.

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