Chapter 4: Affordances, Mereology, Positions, and the Possibility of A Cultural Psychology: A Little Something Complementary to Some of the Themes in Jaan Valsiner’s Address

We should be grateful for the use Jaan Valsiner has made of the writings of Niels Bohr as a philosopher. These are not exactly philosophical writings in the sense that the publications in the professional journals are philosophical. Bohr on a Kantian inspiration, drawing as Steen Brock (2004) has argued, sketches out an alternative conceptual scheme for making sense of the world and of our relation to it, primarily in the context of physics, but in his later writings, of human life itself. His insights are not some patch to be applied to superficial wounds in the varieties of a Newtonian consensus but a grand alternative.