'Proper domain' c/o Machery 2017

On a visit to London 4-7th, in Foyles on Charing Cross Road amongst many desirable titles I came across:

Machery, Edouard, Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Aug. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807520.001.0001, accessed 24 June 2025.

Philosophy and knowledge are in constant play: hide and seek. So the title's 'proper bounds' piqued my interest. I found a previous paper by Machery, also cited in the book:

MACHERY, E. (2011). THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS AND PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE. Metaphilosophy, 42(3), 191–214. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24439937

The paper is technical (as 'metaphilosophy' suggests) with discussion of thought experiments, parity defence, but there is utility here:

'If we have reason to suspect that a physical skill or a psychological capacity is applied outside its proper domain, our confidence in the success of this application should decrease. If we have no further information about the circumstances in which the skill or capacity is applied or about how these circumstances impact its reliability, then, for all we know, the reliability of the skill or capacity in this particular application might be almost as high as it is in its proper domain, or it might be very low: that is, we have a reason to believe that its reliability is lower than in its proper domain, but we do not know how low it is. In these conditions, we should be reluctant to express much confidence in the success of the application of the skill or capacity'. p.201.

I'm hoping for an e-copy of the book, which avoiding even more screen-time, I won't read through (review - as I call it...) but I will search, read selectively and post again.

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Finding motivation ...

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

INTRINSIC	EXTRINSIC
INTRINSIC	If 'you' activate the intrinsic motivation of a people 'here' by extrinsic means, be prepared to suffer the consequences.

 

Previously:

Conveying the Message: Channel, Noise, Redundancy, Information ...   

Social care ... 

 

Twenty Years armed forces LGB ...

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

	Ministry of Defence Main Building illuminated with rainbow colours

Looking at Clouds from Two Domains ...

INDIVIDUAL

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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POPULATION

"Humanitarian Applications"	2. "Estonia's entire government IT systems have been uploaded to the cloud and stored on international servers, so the country could be relocated at a moment's notice if needed."
"Good things can come from innovative tech"	1. "The Estonian government is nervous. ... British and American troops are located on the border, as part of a "trip-wire strategy" to get NATO mobilised. If the worst happens, the Estonian government has a rather ingenious contingency plan. ... A government in exile could relocate, boot up the cloud systems and serve the 1.3 million citizens as before."

Cloud for Business, Raconteur, Estonian Defence Plan. 12/03/17 #0439, p.5.

http://innar.com/personal_copy_Estonian_Government_Cloud_Kotka_Liiv_2015.PDF

Sense making? miss-il-es civil-ians te-ears

individual

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

tears	tears
civilians to defend m i s s i l e s	m i s s i l e s to defend civilians

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