SystemicThinking.Evandro Agazzi -2019 - In Michael Robert Matthews,Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift. Springer. pp. 219-240.detailsModern natural science followed Galileo’s proposals regarding ontology, epistemology and methodology, limiting investigation to a few measurable properties of bodies by the adoption of the experimental method. Force appeared as a specialization of the traditional concept of efficient cause within the new science of Mechanics, which was soon able to incorporate practically all branches of physics. The concept of system had been introduced into scientific vocabulary in the seventeenth century and the limitations of the mechanistic approach in physics emerging by (...) the end of the nineteenth century prompted Bertalannfy to deeply re-elaborate it as System Theory. This permitted him to complement the analytic outlook with a rigorous characterization of the notion of organized totalities. This could be applied to life sciences and several other scientific domains, allowing rigorous treatment of traditional concepts such as finality, and new concepts like complexity and interdisciplinarity. (shrink)
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Thinking the Revolution as the Creation of Universal – Non-etatist, Non-representative, Non-identitarian – Political Space ‘for All’.Lana Zdravković -2020 -Filozofska Istrazivanja 40 (1):151-166.detailsThe paper considers the possibility of rethinking and practising revolutionary politics in contemporaneity, through a look at the legacy of 20th-century revolutionary thought-practice and revolutionary events in the 21st century, which experiment with the constitution of revolutionary power without seizing the governmental power. Going from the historical situation, that the revolution “eats its children”, I argue that a true revolution does not mean taking power, but on the contrary, abolishing the instance of concentrated power. The revolution must be reconceived and (...) put on the map of history as an emancipatory process of establishing a policy of equality, which is the creation of a universal space of politics for ‘all’ or ‘anyone’ without the Other. This presupposes the conceptualisation and redefinition of the revolutionary subject, the revolutionary method, and the revolutionary organization. (shrink)
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Thinking the Art in the Function of Holderlin's "On Existence as Crossings" (in Serbo Croation).Ernesto Grassi -forthcoming -Filozofska Istrazivanja.detailsIn diesem Aufsatz versucht der Autor, die Differenz der romantischen Auffassung der Metapher von der traditionellen und hegelschen Auffassungen uber die Prioritat des Logischen gegenuber der Kunst, festzustellen. Dabei wird eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit der Wichtigkeit der Holderlinschen Schrift "Uber Werden als Vergehen" gewidmet.
Thinking Together.Laura Haupt &Gregory E. Kaebnick -2019 -Hastings Center Report 49 (4):2-2.detailsOver email a few days after the death of Daniel Callahan, cofounder of The Hastings Center and for many years its director and then president, Joseph Fins, a longtime Hastings colleague, offered this comfort: “[H]enceforth every issue of the Report is a living memorial to Dan the writer, editor, and institution builder.” In the Hastings Center Report's first issue, published in June 1971, Dan stated, “To say that [the work of the Report] must be multi‐disciplinary is only to say the (...) issues [it will address] are as complex as human beings themselves.” This July–August 2019 issue continues the tradition Dan began. An essay by Laura Guidry‐Grimes expands on the importance of interdisciplinary conversations and problem solving—and attends to the complexity of human beings—in recalling a patient who was failed by multiple social institutions. In the lead article, a team of authors led by James Sabin identifies a challenge to conducting ethical research within learning health organizations, where research and care are integrated with the aid of patient data from health insurance providers. (shrink)
CriticalThinking Notes.Kelly Parker -unknowndetailsOften an argument will rely on the hearer’s knowing something obvious or implied. Such knowledge is said to be contained in an unstated or missing premise.
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MoreThinking About Gender: A Response to Julie A. Nelson.Patricia Elliot -1994 -Hypatia 9 (1):195-198.detailsNelson argues the best we can hope for in a nonsexist society is to revalue those feminine qualities that have previously been devalued. I argue that those qualities are the result of a sexist construction of gender categories, and that a nonsexist society would have no reason to preserve them.
Dialectical Versus LinearThinking Shapes People’s Anticipation of Climate Change.Liman Man Wai Li,Dongmei Mei,Wen-Qiao Li &Kenichi Ito -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.detailsDialecticalthinking refers to a constellation of beliefs that consist of expectation of change, tolerance of contradiction, and holism. The current research explored whether dialecticalthinking would affect people’s anticipation of climate change, which has been propagated globally. Study 1 compared the responses between Chinese participants, representing people from cultures that promote dialecticalthinking, and North American participants, representing people from cultures that promote linearthinking. The results showed that Chinese participants demonstrated a stronger non-linear pattern (...) regarding the anticipation of climate change as compared with American participants, in which Chinese participants were more likely to anticipate a stable trend but less likely to anticipate an increasing trend for global warming. Study 2 with a manipulation of dialectical and linearthinking was conducted and provided some generally supportive evidence for the causal relation between dialectical beliefs and the anticipation of climate change. Implications for cross-cultural environmental research and international climate change education programs were discussed. (shrink)
Thinking beyond the next election: A strategy for victory.Roderick Long -manuscriptdetailsAuthor’s note : This article originally appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the North Carolina Constitution Defense Association News , a gun-rights organisation.