[FRIAM] lecture @ sfcomplex: **Today** 9/2 5p-7p : Alicia Juarrero - Rethinking Causality
Alicia's talk should be very good tonight. Please attend if you are around. -Steve -- 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 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
Here is a list of 40 good Psychology blogs, which Psychology blogs do you read regularly? http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/40-superb-psychology-blogs.php -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
I am the only person in the world who doesnt read blogs? But I have to say this site looks interesting. May Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: Jochen Fromm > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Date: 9/3/2009 7:17:24 PM > Subject: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs > > Here is a list of 40 good Psychology blogs, > which Psychology blogs do you read regularly? > http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/40-superb-psychology-blogs.php > > -J. > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
That you didn't read blogs would surprise me, as interested as you are in *other* people's opinions... ;-} --Doug On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I am the only person in the world who doesnt read blogs? > > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Jochen Fromm > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > Friam@redfish.com> > > Date: 9/3/2009 7:17:24 PM > > Subject: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs > > > > Here is a list of 40 good Psychology blogs, > > which Psychology blogs do you read regularly? > > http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/40-superb-psychology-blogs.php > > > > -J. > > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] Alicia's talk will start at 5:30p
Given the confusion on start time between 5p and 6p, we will officially start at 5:30p tonight. If you come early, we'll have pre- talk chat...if you come late at 6p, we'll wait to get to the meaty part of the presentation then. :-) --- -. . ..-. .. ... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... stephen.gue...@redfish.com (m) 505.577.5828 (o) 505.995.0206 redfish.com _ sfcomplex.org _ simtable.com _ lava3d.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: That you didn't read blogs would surprise me, as interested as you are in *other* people's opinions... To be fair, following blogs can be difficult. So many interesting ones, so little time. Tom Johnson does a great job at it .. Tom: do you use some sort of aggregator? Or just rss feeds? The browser I use makes it fairly easy to follow blogs via rss feeds. But I ran into trouble when I followed several really busy blogs via rss -- I'd end up with 100 entries within a day or so. So I break blog usage into three modes: - RSS feeds for 20-30 blogs that publish daily or less. - Direct links to the busy blogs that I care about. - And best of all FRIAM and other great groups who point things out to me! -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all read and go on. -- rec -- On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> >> That you didn't read blogs would surprise me, as interested as you are in >> *other* people's opinions... > > > To be fair, following blogs can be difficult. So many interesting ones, so > little time. > > Tom Johnson does a great job at it .. Tom: do you use some sort of > aggregator? Or just rss feeds? > > The browser I use makes it fairly easy to follow blogs via rss feeds. But I > ran into trouble when I followed several really busy blogs via rss -- I'd > end up with 100 entries within a day or so. > > So I break blog usage into three modes: > - RSS feeds for 20-30 blogs that publish daily or less. > - Direct links to the busy blogs that I care about. > - And best of all FRIAM and other great groups who point things out to me! > > -- Owen > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all read and go on. -- rec -- The problem is that you are a computer pro. I doubt you could show others how to think in this fashion. You need to understand blogs, and that they are article based with dates. You'd have to explain RSS feeds as a notification stunt. You'd have to explain that there are ways to use the feeds: Google Reader, Browser functionalities, Aggregators, and so on. It really is hard, at least at the conceptual level for non-geeks. I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we ought to go back to that? -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
