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. […]