Let’s return to our diagram of a human being (or, “an enviro-human system”).  I want now to look just at […]

The diagram I used in the last post is misleading in that it makes things look more contained and bounded […]

Last time, we raised the question: “What is ‘Jim”?” (substitute your own name for “Jim” here).  We think of ourselves […]

When we make a choice, who is making the choice?  We have already seen that there are lots of things […]

When we make a choice about ourselves often that choice is vastly undetermined by the information we have available.  Say […]

It makes little sense to see a human being (or any other animal) as an individual making free choices.  In […]

Note that the question of free will simply does not arise for animals.  We think that, even for intelligent species, […]

Recently, the College of Education at Arizona State University—where I work— received funding from the Kern Family Foundation to make […]

What killed people’s sense of mattering was the growth of very high levels of inequality.  What caused such high levels […]

Many of us tend to think of history as a march forward and upward. So, we tend to interpret the […]

The Catholic Church declined in three stages. The same was true for many other institutions.  “The Sixties” (roughly from 1963 […]

Today, we have among the highest levels of inequality we have ever had.  Drug addiction, environmental degradation, flows of climate […]

The British economist John Maynard Keynes and “Keynesian Economics” were foundational to the Bretton Woods Agreement and to the world […]

Though neo-liberalism is the “usual suspect” for the miseries of our institutions and society, it is not nearly as relevant […]

Teaching, Learning, Literary in our High-Risk, High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human (Teachers College Press, 2017). Ignorance We humans […]

Neither love nor liking is necessary for the sorts of critical discussions among different frameworks that might lead to shared […]

Goodwill.  What could possibly encourage people in a fractured and inequitable world to have goodwill?  I, for one, do not […]

I want now to give an example of two different frameworks that certainly appear incommensurable.  My purpose here is make […]

We are at a critical juncture now in our attempt to understand why frameworks can cause us humans such grief.  […]