religion
The Taoist Story Teller and Culture: Do We Still Need Truth, Reality, and/or God?
The 2009 Metanexus meeting, plane rides to/from Phoenix reading Raymond Smullyan's The Tao is Silent and Ann Harrington's The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine, conversations last week with Bharath Vallabha (see Truth and Power in Education), Alice Lesnick, and Ben Olshin, and discussions in our K-12 summer institutes all seem to bear on the above question(s), and suggest an interesting approach to them.
My Ongoing Philosophical Thoughts
Submitted by Brie Stark on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 5:34pm- biology
- brain
- complexity
- Complexity in Education
- culture
- Dealing with Challenges
- diversity
- Diversity and Culture in Education
- education
- Educational Empowerment
- emergence
- feminism
- gender
- Incorporating Student Experiences
- Learning Environment
- mental health
- philosophy
- physics
- Progressive Education
- religion
- Roles in Education
- science
- story telling
- web and technology
- life spontaneity living philosophy brain thoughts thinking unconscious conscious social reality superiority hierarchy
Living Life
Education in Life Itself -- Changing Perspective
Submitted by Brie Stark on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 1:36pmIntroduction
Wil Franklin, Paul Grobstein, Emily Lovejoy and I participated in a discussion over the draft of a paper entitled "Education in Life Itself." These are my thoughts from the discussion.
Thoughts
God In The Brain And The God Outside of It
Submitted by mmg on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 2:26amNew Environmental Stories to Heed Biological Evolution
Submitted by sustainablephil... on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 1:28pm
Tim Richards
Friday, May 15, 2009
Evolit Final Paper
New Environmental Stories to Heed Biological Evolution
Stories can conflict not just with one another, but also with the very biological processes that gave rise to them. Normally, in studying the theory or story of evolution, we focus on how it conflicts with other dominant cultural stories, especially with Christianity and its insistence that God created the world. This conflict is generally controversial enough to occupy the intellectual content of a course discussing the social aspects of the theory of evolution.
The Problem of the Soul: Two VIsions of the Mind and How to Reconcile Them
Submitted by bkim on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 12:57pmContrary to the book’s title about the reconciliation of viewpoints, the author, Owen Flanagan, attempts to defend the naturalistic, scientific view against the humanistic view, which argues that the mind is nonphysical and endowed by a higher being. Flanagan argues that we are “fully embodied creatures” (6) that have nervous systems that can give rise to minds, morals and self-identity. He posits that there is a physical, scientific explanation for everything and argues against the existence of God, free will and an unchanging soul that exists beyond death.
Evolution: The Theory That Pits Science Against Religion
Submitted by Rica Dela Cruz on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 5:44pm
Dennett's Dangerous Idea: Defining Objectivity Subjectively
Submitted by Jackie Marano on Sun, 03/15/2009 - 12:33pm
Evolution: What's the Problem? What Can We Do About It?
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 6:32pmNotes for a discussion in the Cafe Scientifique at Bryn Mawr College on 23 February 2009
moderated by Paul Grobstein and Anne Dalke
Background (partial):
- Dayton, Ohio, 1925 (Inherit the Wind, 1955, 1960)
- Dover, Pennsylvania, 2004
- Kansas, 2005
- Texas, -2009
For discussion:
