{"id":4005,"date":"2012-04-23T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2012-04-23T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T19:01:18","slug":"command-dialogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/command-dialogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Command Dialogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/04\/at-the-hot-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\">post about Generation Kill and Nate Fick<\/a>, I remarked that military commands often need dialog between commander and commandee(s) before they may be rationally accepted, and\/or executed.\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, a very good demonstration of the failure to adequately discuss commands (or purported commands) in a complex (police) action is shown by a report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bradhicks.livejournal.com\/459368.html\" target=\"_blank\">UC-Davis Pepper Spray incident<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nManagement textbooks of a certain vintage used to define <em>management<\/em> as the doing of things through others.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0Pepper Spray\u00a0example clearly shows the difficulties and challenges involved in actually achieving such vicarious doing in dynamic and ambiguous situations.\u00a0 And the poverty of Philosophy is not better shown than by the fact that the speech act of commanding has barely been studied at all by philosophers, obsessed these last 2,350 years with understanding assertions of facts.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.formalphilosophy.com\/Formal_Philosophy_files\/Interviews\/Chellas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chellas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/01\/a-salute-to-charles-hamblin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamblin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/artsfaculty.auckland.ac.nz\/staff\/?UPI=rgir003\" target=\"_blank\">Girle<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccc.ox.ac.uk\/Fellows\/f\/48\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parsons<\/a> are exceptions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, in a post about Generation Kill and Nate Fick, I remarked that military commands often need dialog between commander and commandee(s) before they may be rationally accepted, and\/or executed.\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, a very good demonstration of the failure to adequately discuss commands (or purported commands) in a complex (police) action is shown by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,40,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentation","category-decision-theory","category-joint-action-society","category-philosophy-of-language","p1","y2012","m04","d23","h19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}