Posted in adult learning, biology, critical thinking, social psychology on Apr 26th, 2008 4 Comments »
The anti-evolution movie Expelled has garnered a lot of attention in the aftermath of its release to the nation’s cinemas. I haven’t seen it. The mainstream reviews all point out that it’s a deceptive piece of propaganda. I have no doubt that it is after reading about the various canards it rolls out gleefully.
Of more […]
Posted in critical thinking, philosophy, pragmatism, speculations on Apr 24th, 2008 No Comments »
If both natural law and ceaseless creativity partially beyond natural law are necessary for understanding our world, and if we as whole human beings live in this real world of law and unknowable creativity, these two ancient strands of Western civilization can reunite in ways we cannot foresee. Out of this union can arise a […]
Posted in anthropology, civic intelligence, community development, critical culture, critical thinking on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights.
Could a community be an art form?
I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused […]
Posted in adult learning, cognitive psychology, critical thinking, experiential learning, politics, psychology on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Hillary Clinton: “Experience not only counts, it is all that counts.”
Mrs. Clinton’s rhetoric here makes no account of an interesting division among Democrats. Barack Obama enjoys a substantial edge in that better educated, more affluent Democrats support him over Mrs. Clinton. How to account for this edge among people who are much more likely to […]
Posted in adult learning, critical thinking on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
An indelicate metaphor, albeit on the target, courtesy of Xosrow Jamsheidi and Jamsheid Jamsheidi, writing in a somewhat inscrutable article, Time for Dipstick Examination of our Assumptions.
We feel our underwear only the first few minutes we put them on. Then we don’t see them, we don’t feel them, we don’t think about them, and we […]
Posted in critical thinking, pseudo-science, science on Jun 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
The truths of science and faith are complementary: they deal with very different questions, but they do not contradict each other because the spiritual order and the material order were created by the same God.
It does not strike me as anti-science or anti-reason to question the philosophical presuppositions behind theories offered by scientists who, in […]
Posted in adult learning, critical thinking, experiential learning, folk psychology, new paradigms, psychology on May 25th, 2007 No Comments »
For the past two years I have been researching with a colleague the following mouthful: informal, self-managed problem solving in dyadic interpersonal contexts. Okay? The research is informal and is driven by loosely coupled folk psychological theorizing about potentially productive heuristics. This means the theorizing is pragmatic but not formally disciplined. Although it could elaborate […]
Posted in critical culture, critical thinking, new paradigms, phenomenology, philosophy, speculations on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
After borrowing Ken Wilber’s latest book,Integral Spirituality from the library, I was moved to purchase it because I had dipped into it and read the following on page 176:
The myth of the given or monological consciousness is essentially another name for phenomenology and mere empiricism in any of a hundred guises–whether regular empiricism, radical empiricism, […]
Posted in critical thinking, phenomenology, philosophy on Jan 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
(I’m data hopping.} From a December 20 post at Matt Murrah’s Leadership blog.
We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires. - Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict, XVI)
Later, Murrah admits,
If relativism is to be ‘enforced’, then […]
Posted in critical thinking, folk psychology, new paradigms, psychology on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Jeezum… from the blog about stuff Integral (aka Ken Wilber et al) Mystery of Existence,
Dangers of models
In writing the aqal review of local organizations, and also talking with a friend yesterday who’s very much into integral things, I am reminded of the dangers of Spiral Dynamics, and of any map, framework or model.
As with any […]
Posted in cognitive psychology, critical thinking, resources on May 12th, 2005 No Comments »
Reasoning implements thinking habits. Those habits may be advantageous, or not!
A few quick gleanings from the web in the direction of breaking away.
Provocative Ideas @imaginization
A.L.Tenner-Learning From Paradox
Metasystem Transition @Principia Cybernetica
Metasystem Transition Theory @ PC
Nasruddin jokes one two
Creativity Techniques
Inheriting from the Innovators
Posted in chaos-the-metaphor, consciousness, critical thinking, metaphysics, new paradigms, philosophy, psychology on Nov 30th, 1999 No Comments »
A long excerpt from a book-length Ph.D. dissertation evokes the scope of Robert Stuart Houghton’s theorizing about education. A Chaotic Paradigm: An Alternative World View of the Foundations of Educational Inquiry. It’s gist is this: there is an implicit potential able to emerge and realize substantial effects were learning to be concerned with the actual […]
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