Alicia's talk should be very good tonight. Please attend if you are
around.
-Steve
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SPEAKER: Alicia Juarrero
TITLE: Rethinking Causality - As Constraint
Sept 3 5p-7p
Santa Fe Complex, 624 Agua Fria
Alicia Juarrero, professor of philosophy emerita at Prince George’s
Community College in Maryland, offers her views on complexity
Thursday, September 3 at 5:00p,m. Widely recognized for her writing
and her skills in the classroom, Dr. Juarrero is the author of
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT
Press, 1999), and co-editor of Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from
North and South, (ISCE Publishing, 2007) and Emergence, Self-
Organization and Complexity: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE
Publishing, 2008). In this talk, she rethinks the concept of cause in
terms of context-sensitive constraints. Because the received view of
causality as forceful impact is eminently unsuitable for complex
systems, she argues, a renewed understanding of part-whole and whole-
part causes, and of complex systems’ embeddedness in history and the
environment, opens up for the complexity scientist. .
Alicia Juarrero was named 2002 U.S. Professor of the Year by the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She served on the
board of the National Council on the Humanities, the Advisory Board of
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). From 1992-2000, she
served as Chair of NEH Council Committee on State Programs. She earned
her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Miami. Born in
Cuba, Professor Juarrero has played a leading role in introducing
Complexity concepts and theory to that island nation, which currently
has nine complexity study centers or catedra.
http://sfcomplex.org/wordpress/2009/08/rethinking-causality#more-2866
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