A word to the wise

Abstract

Heinz Streib’s appeal for a wisdom that takes seriously the deep problem of “the other” is not only profound but timely. In my comments I ask if this question might even benefit from a research agenda or if that is a distraction and then I suggest an additional point of view, based on the work of the late John Shotter, that might assist us in understanding how we come to know from within our activities rather than “about” our activities. Will this lead us to be wiser? I don’t have an answer to this but I provide a plea for a psychology that is focused on the everyday.