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From complexity to emergence and beyond ...

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 3:56pm

My most current extended writing on complexity, emergence, and beyond ... into a "hybrid" world involving both chance and intention. Recently published in the interdiscipinary journal Soundings (Volume 90, Issue 1/2, pp 301-323, 2007). Available as a Word file.

And assigned as a reading in a recent course. Which in turn triggered an essay by a student in that course, Alexandra Funk, making an interesting link to Mary Catherine Bateson's 1989 book Composing a Life. An excerpt from Alexandra's essay ...

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Philosophy of Science 2008 - Additional discussion resources

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 11:51am
Class discussions draw significantly on prior published work by both instructors. References to such work not included in class reading assignments are added here as their relevance emerges.
First 5 class sessions
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Emergence: Biological, Literary, and ....

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 5:46pm

Evolution and Literature:
Notes on Change and Order

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Evolution/Science: Inverting the Relationship Between Randomness and Meaning

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 6:19pm

The past Sunday's NY Times Book Review has a review of a book by Anne Harrington called The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. Its interesting in its own right, directly relevant to a course I'm currently teaching, but connects in interesting ways to some other things bubbling around as well. The book is reviewed by Jerome Groopman, a cancer specialist, who writes ....

Neurobiology and Behavior, Spring, 2008

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Philosophy of Science 2008 - Schedule

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 12:26pm
 
22 Jan MK, PG Introduction and the demarcation problem past and present
 See Evolution and Intelligent Design: Perspectives and Lakatos
29 Jan MK Realism and the Aim of Science I

Philosophy of Science 2008

The overriding theme of this course is an exploration of the nature of scientific knowledge in the context of the realist/constructivist controversy in the philosophy of science. It will seek an accommodation between realism and constructivism. Further topics include evolution, complexity and emergence, the brain, and science as story telling as they bear on the overriding theme.

Phil 310 = Bio 310, Spring 2008, Tuesdays, 1-3:30

 

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A challenge not only to getting it "right" but getting it "less wrong" as well

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 6:51pm

See The Empirical Non-Foundationalist and the Phenomonologue: Getting It Less Wrong?  A continuing dialogue, between ... science and humanities?  A taste of the issues:

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Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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