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  • Philosophizing & Inspiration

    Because I spend so much time being concerned that philosophizing as a way of life is about helping folks figure out how to live better lives, many professional philosophers do not think I am a “philosopher.” I am cool with… Continue reading

  • Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate… Continue reading

    Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

  • Poll Quants & the Book of Life

    I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World… Continue reading

    Poll Quants & the Book of Life

  • The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

    The ongoing struggles with encoding the Book of Life. It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?  If… Continue reading

  • Charles Tart: Self Observation (excerpt) – A Thinking Allowed DVD with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove – YouTube

    I am not a Freudian, but I do appreciate the thrust of this dialog. The prerequisite for Profound Reflection 401 is Introductory Introspection 101… not on the list of any philosophy or any psychology class schedules I know about. Continue reading

  • How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

    Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

  • Detaching-Letting Go-Releasing Yourself

    A nice blog entry from over at Miati Notes on Toxic Relationships that certainly goes to the heart of what I have been feeling over the last few days. As listening to Frank Herbert’s Dune this morning reminded me of… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 3

    These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life.… Continue reading

  • be happy, do nothing… « lederr

    From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition,… Continue reading

  • Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers

    Not one to advertise things for the iPad, but so many of my buddies are musicians who will find this of great interest. Continue reading

    Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers

  • Textimony 20120923

    Attend. Adjust. Acknowledge: Unhindered by regret, this WAY lets-go the insolence reposing within success & embraces the humility residing within failure Continue reading

  • The Method of the Moon Bridge

    The Moon was one of humankind’s first measures for time. Thus, to this day the word “month” recalls that original measurement. “Moon” itself probably arises from a variation of the Indo-European term “me-” which is also the root for “to… Continue reading

  • Tolkien & Teaching

    In his mythology, Tolkien tells us that the elves crossed the sea in rebellion, and even those who linger yet in Middle Earth do not forget and yearn for a return to their land of origin.  For elves, the sea is… Continue reading

  • Pedagogy by Carrot

    The majority of students today expect assignments with finite parameters, clear grading paths, and a checklist of things they can tick off to get an A. “Pick my own topic for an essay? What do you mean by that? What… Continue reading

  • TechnoScience & the New Pedagogy

    In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps… Continue reading

  • Using a Compass Now vs. an Outdated Map from Before

    One of my good friends, Andrew Wicklander, runs his own project management group and software company. His wife, Maile, owns a yoga studio. They are both the sort of “job-creators” touted as crucial to the success of America. Andrew says… Continue reading

  • How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans – NYTimes.com

    Neil Heffernan was listening to his fiancée, Cristina Lindquist, tutor one of her students in mathematics when he had an idea. Heffernan was a graduate student in computer science, and by this point — the summer of 1997 — he… Continue reading