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Category Archives: Public Philosophizing
3quarksdaily: Philosophy is a Bunch of Empty Ideas: Interview with Peter Unger
Philosophy: you either get it or you don’t. The field has its passionate defenders, but according to its critics, philosophy is irrelevant, unproductive, and right at the height of the ivory towers. And now, the philosophy-bashing camp can count a … Continue reading
Using Brain Research to Design Better eLearning Courses: 7 Tips for Success
The brain is constantly on the lookout for ways to improve by obtaining new knowledge and skills, even before birth. Unfortunately, retaining information can be challenging, simply because instructors and course designers do not always use methods that facilitate remembering. … Continue reading
Posted in Field Philosophy, Public Philosophizing
Tagged learning, neuroscience, pedagogy
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Multiverse Controversy Heats Up – Scientific American
The multiverse is one of the most divisive topics in physics, and it just became more so. The major announcement last week of evidence for primordial ripples in spacetime has bolstered a cosmological theory called inflation, and with it, some … Continue reading
The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends – Carla Diana – The Atlantic
Karotz is an Internet-enabled console in the shape of an abstracted rabbit. One sits on my coffee table, continuously connected to WiFi, programmed to broadcast certain bits of live information such as Twitter messages, news headlines or weather reports by … Continue reading
Posted in Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications
Tagged Karotz, robot, robotics, technophilia
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The Overwhelm
Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, talks with the Atlantic Monthly. Schulte scrutinizes this state of affairs: Why do we all feel so overworked? How is that feeling different for men … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy & Politics, Public Pedagogy, Public Philosophizing
Tagged Brigid Schulte, labor, stress, the overwhelm
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What Would Plato Tweet? – NYTimes.com
…For the past few years I’d been obsessed with trying to figure out what lay behind the spectacular achievements that had occurred there. In a mere couple of centuries, Greek speakers went from anomie and illiteracy, lacking even an alphabet, … Continue reading
How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner | King’s Review – Magazine
An interview with molecular biologist Sydney Brenner… In most places in the world, you live your social life and your ordinary life in the lab. You don’t know anybody else. Sometimes you don’t even know other people in the same … Continue reading
Posted in Broader Impacts, Future of the University, Graduate Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Peer Review, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Transdisciplinarity
Tagged Cambridge University, Kings College, molecular biology, Sydney Brenner, UK Research Council, UK research policy
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Public Books — Stop Defending the Humanities
Those who matter most to the humanities fall, I think, into two classes. The most important is that relatively small group of 18-year-olds (disproportionately few from poorer families) who are inclined to study the humanities. Our immediate future rests primarily … Continue reading
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? | David Graeber | The Baffler
My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible direction, and then … Continue reading
Posted in Field Philosophy, Interdisciplinarity, Public Philosophizing
Tagged ethology, play, playfulness
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Take Four Minutes To Reflect On Your Place In The Cosmos : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
…regardless of our resolutions and regardless of our ability to achieve those resolutions, our lives on this lonely cosmic outpost, this \”Pale Blue Dot,\” continue on. Until, of course, they don\’t. And that, in itself, is something to consider as … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Carl Sagan, cosmos, New Year, Pale Blue Dot
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Would teaching economics backwards help students be ready for the world?
Who really knows… but it might be worth the experiment! …here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the … Continue reading
Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Climate Change, Economics & STEM Research, Environmental policy, Globalization, Occupy Wall Street, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Tagged Brad Werner, global science research, global warming, Naomi Klein
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Science’s rightful place is in service of society | Dan Sarewitz
Science policy must concentrate less on how much money is spent, and more on how to translate investments into public good via Science’s rightful place is in service of society : Nature News & Comment.
A Wizard of Oz Moment for the Web: Pull back the Curtains
Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency. Everyone who browses the Internet leaves a digital trail used by advertisers … Continue reading
Schoolhouse Block: Science Students and the Government Shutdown | The Student Blog
It’s Day 5 of the government shutdown and the Panda Cam is still off. What does this mean for American science students? One of the biggest effects making its way around the science blog-o-sphere is the cutting of funding for scientific research. … Continue reading
Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…
Steven Hill (@stevenhill), Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, responds to a recent publication by Steven Hrotic and me here: Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…. Here is the original publication, which is available open … Continue reading
Hirschman on creativity
Nice Albert O. Hirschman quote brought to us by Malcolm Gladwell at the New Yorker: …The only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it … Continue reading
Academic Sustainability
The academy may be filled with leftists–so we are told–but it has yet to apply its Marxist interpretive skills to its own situation. For the academy suffers from epistemic overproduction. We can expect a crash. This overproduction shows itself both … Continue reading
Alternative alternative metric
Maybe more ways our 56 Indicators can be used to assist in a different approach to success: not only in Academia but the general day to day of living a measured life and working in a measurable way. Finding new … Continue reading
Nigel Warburton’s negative vision of what philosophy isn’t | jbrittholbrook
Does not resisting impact requirements mean you’re not a real philosopher? Nigel Warburton’s negative vision of what philosophy isn’t | jbrittholbrook.
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, CSID Publications, Future of the University, institutionalizing interdisciplinarity, Metrics, NSF, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Transdisciplinarity
Tagged freedom, impact, Nigel Warburton, Philosophy, philosophy bites, REF, responsibility
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Friends With Benefits – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Some real gems in this piece from today’s Chronicle, with which we collaborative humanists at CSID are much in sympathy. I sample the piece here, but it is well worth reading in full: No one works alone. It’s just a … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Future of the University, Peer Review, Public Philosophizing
Tagged collaboration, humanities, promotion, tenure
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56 Indicators of Impact
In 2011, several core members of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at the University of North Texas held a meeting during which we imagined different ways to indicate the impact of our activities. We scribbled them on … Continue reading
What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance | Andrew Taggart
Dr. Andrew J. Taggart, Philosophical Counselor, considers the role of the public philosopher and gives a shout out to our efforts here at CSID. On April 1, 2010, the professional philosopher Jonathan Dancy, who happens to be the father-in-law of … Continue reading
Communities of Integration Workshop – Field Philosophy
I’m very pleased to be attending the upcoming workshop at Arizona State on “Communities of Integration” at the invitation of Erik Fisher of STIR fame. You can get a sneak peak at the developing website, including our contribution on Field … Continue reading
The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State U.’s Philosophy Department – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
This is a must read. The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State U.’s Philosophy Department – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education.