Joe Velikovsky's Blog, page 7
September 24, 2022
4th International Zoom-Based Conference on the Thought of Karl Popper
4th International Zoom-Based Conference on the Thought of Karl Popper
Hosted by Jeremy Shearmur
September 24th-25th, 02022
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So I attended (& presented at) this great Zoom-conference in 02022:
Program: (by Jeremy Shearmur)
Saturday 24th:
12.45: Welcome and sorting of any problems
13.00 Dominic Mayers, ‘A comment on David Deutsch's view on Popper's correspondence theory of truth'
13.30
Peter Lugten, ‘The Self and Its Brain’
14.00
Dawid Szombierski, ‘Popper’s Kantianism: Problem of Demarcation as a Form of Separative Criticism’
14.30-15.00 break
15.00
Reinhard Neck, ‘Methodological Individualism’
15.30
Thomas Hainscho, ‘Fuller, Post-truth and Popper’
16.00-16.30 break
16.30
Philip Benesch, ‘The Religious Neutrality Principle in the Governance of an Open Society’
17.00
Bill Berkson ‘Pragmatic Rationalism’
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Sunday 25th:
09.30
Rafe Champion, ‘Popper and Talcott Parsons: Taking the Moral Framework Seriously’
10.00
Velikovsky of Newcastle, ‘The Open Society & The EthiSizer’
10.30-11.00 break
11.00
Nimrod Bar-Am, ‘Popper and the Metaphysics of Communication’
11.30
Jeremy Shearmur: ‘Plato’s Revenge: The problem of fallible knowledge in an open society’
12.00
Davide Forcellini, ‘Falsificationism in Numerical Modelling’
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...A great conference!...& very well done - to Jeremy, and all...
(& also enjoyed the previous Popper Zoom Conference - in March 02022)
(& I also very much enjoyed, the more-previous Popper Zoom Conference ! ...in September 02021)
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P.S. ...& my 15-min paper (in case you missed it) :
The Open Society & The EthiSizer (17 mins)
& a recent book, that I mentioned a few times there:
Elements of Evolutionary Culturology (Velikovsky 02022)& here is a book-trailer for it:
Elements of Evolutionary Culturology (Velikovsky 02022) - Book Trailer (2.5 mins)
& see:
Elements of Ev Cult (2nd ed, 02023)& see:
The EthiSizer Q & A
& see
The Novella that The EthiSizer wrote about itself
The EthiSizer - A Novella-rama by The EthiSizer (02023)and see
The EthiSizer's weblog
And see this book I wrote, that The EthiSizer edited:
PH3: The Book
&
PH3 weblog
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& if desired - more information, at the:
Evolutionary Culturology weblog
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
Evolutionary Culturologist
and/or
(Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
Online Multimedia Showreel...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
September 21, 2022
Center for Systems Studies - 30th Anniversary Event (Sept 02022)
Center for Systems Studies 30th Anniversary Event (Sept 02022)
So I attended this online event, on 21st Sept 02022.
A celebration of the CSS's great work, over the past 30 years...!
Gerald Midgely (bottom right) opens proceedings...Schedule:
Russell Ackoff, Mike Jackson & Robert Flood, in the 1992 news article, above!
Mike gave a great recap, looking back over 30 years...
(...That's me, the `ghostly apparition'... except that `ghostly apparition' is a woo-woo-word, not scientific, but whatever)
& Raj gave a great talk, looking back on his time at Hull... (he's now at Birmingham)
See also Raj's great book:
Zhu gave a great talk also... about coming back to the Hull CSS in 1992/3 to do his PhD...
and his Systems career since then...
Jennifer Wilby (now in Oregon) also gave a great talk about her time at Hull (starting a PhD in 1992 at Hull) & Critical Systems Thinking... (Jennifer's Masters was on Hierarchy Theory) & working with the ISSS.
Luis also gave a great talk about his time with the CSS.
Maria also gave a great talk about her debt to the CSS at Hull!
& Gerald gave a great talk...
Gerald, putting suggestions on the board...
Joe Ravetz & many others made many great suggestions...
(...& see the video, for the rest of the event...)
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A great event, well done CSS... and Congrats on a great 30 years...!!
(& Great work by - & congrats to - Emma L Webster, for organizing/convening!)
...Onwards & upwards for Systems Science!
Also, see this great event that Gerald put on last year, in 02021
(i.e., Systems Thinking For Wicked Problems).
THE END
(ROLL CREDITS)
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
...
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
...
Evolutionary Culturologist
or
& Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Information Scientist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Random Guy & Rugged Frontiersman
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
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September 15, 2022
Workshop on Diagrams of Life and Evolution - 02022
13th of September 02022 - Rome & Online
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So I just attended this great workshop, convened by Nathalie Gontier. From the programme:
`Introduction
This workshop will investigate the major diagrams of evolution, their precursors in intellectual history, and their adequacy in depicting the mechanisms and processes or general aspects of life that they intend to illustrate. Along the way, the workshop furthermore aims to expose curious parallels between diagrammatic research in the life and the natural sciences, reasons for which might be found in the way humans conceptualize diagrams cognitively.
Keywords - Cycles of Life - Chains of Being - Scales of Nature - Pedigrees and Genealogies - Trees of life - Evolutionary Timelines - Phylogenetic trees - Networks - Mode and Tempo of Evolution - Hierarchy theory
More information and abstracts are available at the following links:
* Diagrams2022: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2022/index.php/program/workshops/#workshop_evolve
* Workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/events/diagrams2022
* AppEEL: https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/home'
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Schedule
(in Rome time, UTC+2)
08:30 – 10:30: Session I: Theory & Contextualization
08:30: Nathalie Gontier - Welcome and Introduction to Diagrams of Life and Evolution
09:00: Paloma López Grüninger - Between the Lines: The Visual Language of Evolutionary Diagrams and its Consequences for Interpretation
09:30: Raphaël Sandoz - Mapping Science with Diagrams: From Trees to Networks
10:00: Marilyn Mitchell - Motivations Underlying the Representation of Time in Family and Evolutionary Tree Diagrams
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 13:00: Session II: Timelines, Pre- and Post-Evolutionary Trees
11:00: Graham Shields - The Geological Timescale
11:30: Petter Hellström - Form, Not Function: A Revisionist History of Early Systematic Trees
12:00: Erica Torrens & Ana Barahona - Darwin's trees: Metaphors of Biological Order
12:30: Bárbara Jiménez Pazos - In Search for Darwin’s Conception of Time in The Origin of Species: A semantic Journey Through Diagrams, Trees, Scales, and Cycles
13:00 – 14:00 Break
14:00 – 16:00 Session III: Impact of Ordering Systems
14:00: Murray Leaf - What Kinship Terminologies Are and How We Know It
14:30: Sander Gliboff - Diagrams in Historical Context: The Changing Meaning of Ernst Haeckel’s Human Family Tree
15:00: Kees van Putten - The Decline and Fall of Spatiality in Images of the Order of Nature: Multi-Dimensional Images of the Natural System in the First Half of the 20th Century
15:30: Douglas E. Soltis - The Tree of Life Concept through Human History
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Session IV: Networks, Webs, and Cycles
16:30: Pamela S. Soltis - Networks As Models of Evolutionary History
17:00: Christos Ouzounis - The Net of Life: From Extant Genomes to LUCA, and Back
17:30: Frank N. Egerton - Ecology’s Atypical Diagrams
18h00: Session V: Discussion18h30: End
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& some screenshots:
Thanks again to Nathalie and all participants for a great Workshop!
&
(the Zoom-recorded video of the workshop, from AppEEL's YouTube channel)
Session I of Diagrams of Life & Evolution @ Diagrams2022, in collaboration with the AppEEL WebinarsSession II of Diagrams of Life & Evolution at Diagrams2022 in collaboration with the AppEEL Webinars
Session III of Diagrams of Life & Evolution @ Diagrams2022, jointly with the AppEEL Webinars
Session IV of Diagrams of Life & Evolution @ Diagrams2022, in collaboration with the AppEEL Webinars
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And, also on the topic of Evolutionary Diagrams...
Diagrams of Evolution in `Elements of Evolutionary Culturology' (Velikovsky 02022)
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...& see, a Tree of Culture diagram, from Evolutionary Culturology:
StoryAlity #149B – The Tree of Culture
& see also:
StoryAlity #139 – On the evolution of Darwin’s `Tree of Life’ Diagram
& see also:StoryAlity#140 – The Evolution of the Systems Model of Creativity (Csikszentmihalyi 1988-onwards)
(...for more detail on the above, see: Elements of Evolutionary Culturology (Velikovsky 2022))
THE END
(ROLL CREDITS)
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
...
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
...
Evolutionary Culturologist
or
& Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Information Scientist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Random Guy & Rugged Frontiersman
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
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April 22, 2022
X-Lives Blogpost Compilation (Year 1)
X-Lives Blogpost Compilation (Year 1)
After all of us recently celebrating a brilliant first year of Andy Norman's great Examined Lives webinars - here's... A sample of blog posts on it!
TVoL's Examined Lives: Lies & Deception (...& Happy 1-year Anniversary to X-Lives !!!)
...& a Special Guest Appearance: CIRCE @ CrisiScience !
...another Special Guest Appearance! The Weaponization of Doubt - Lee McIntyre (@ Winston's Weekly CrisiScience Collaborative ~ with Steve Winston)
&
To Be Continued...
...You should join X-Lives! ...It's great!
And - I can also very highly recommend, Andy's new book: Mental Immunity (released: May 18 2021) !
Mental Immunity (2021)
(& I notice, you can order it now on that Amazon link, above... & I did ! )
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& see also Andy Norman's great nonprofit-org, the CIRCE (Cognitive Immunology) website...
CIRCE (The Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative)
THE END!
(ROLL CREDITS)
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
...
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
...
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Prosocial Commons & Ostrom's 8 CDPs
Prosocial Commons & Ostrom's 8 CDPs
A post by
Velikovsky of Newcastle
23 April 02022
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Hey - what's this-?
The 8 CDPs!
The 8 CDPs! Thanks to Prosocial World & Prosocial Commons !
• Shared identity and purpose• Equitable distribution of contributions and benefits• Fair and inclusive decision making• Monitoring of agreed behaviors• Graduated responding to helpful and unhelpful behavior• Fast and fair conflict resolution• Adequate authority to self-govern (according to principles 1–6)• Collaborative relations with other groups (using principles 1–7)
Source: `Lead Any Group Through the Prosocial Process (GROUP FACILITATION USING THE PROSOCIAL ARC PROCESS)' - Prosocial World Tools & Resources, 2022)
& see:
Wilson, D. S., Ostrom, E., & Cox, M. E. (2013). Generalizing the Core Design Principles for the Efficacy of Groups. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 90(S21-S32). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.010
And see this great Introductory Video:
THE END
ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
...
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
...
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
April 21, 2022
Examined Lives: Honor Cultures (April 02022)
TVoL's Examined Lives: Honor Cultures
(Webinar of: April 02022)
See: https://thisviewoflife.com/examined-lives/
A blog-post by
Velikovsky of Newcastle
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Attended this great webinar...
Honor Cultures (Session 20)
Date and Time: Thursday, April 21st, 12-1pm ET (4-5pm UTC)
Abstract ,
by Andy Norman:
Anthropologists have noticed that nomadic people and herdsmen—especially those without recourse to reliable law enforcement—have cultures that are quite different from those that prevail in modern, law-governed states. In “honor" cultures, a person’s worth and reputation can be granted or taken away by others and it often pays to respond to insults with violence. (Think gunslingers of the Wild West, or the samurai of feudal Japan.) By contrast, “dignity" cultures treat individuals as having inherent and roughly equal worth and rely on institutions to defend rights. Honor and dignity cultures emphasize different virtues: an admirable person in one culture might count as a despicable person in another. Honor culture prevailed in Medieval Europe; dignity culture prevails in much of post-Enlightenment Europe. Honor culture is said to prevail in the American South; dignity cultures prevail in many cosmopolitan cities. What light can evolutionary thinking about these phenomena teach us about the modern world? What it can teach us about how to evolve a world that works for all?
Some sources for the ambitious (pdf versions):
A Key Difference Between Honor and Dignity Cultures
The Persistence of Honor Culture as Explanation for Violence in the American South
Insults and the Honor Culture of the American South
Performing Honor Online: When Honor Culture and Social Media Collide
[End of Abstract]
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Thanks again to Andy & Sage & TVoL & all...
(I feel like I get smarter every time I attend X-Lives...)-------//--------
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And, am happy to report we solved all the world's problems, in that great webinar... (~JTV)
THE END.
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And X-Lives now also has a Hylo Group, thanks to Prosocial Commons!-------//--------
& some good books that were mentioned by attendees:Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
Albion's Seed by David Hacket Fisher
Hierarchy In The Forest by Christopher Boehm
& a passing Comment I made in the Zoom-chat:
02:53:33 AM - From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Re: Evolved Group Rules - (& honor vs dignity) & `Hierarchy In The Forest' (Boehm) - a quote from Harari's `21 Lessons' book (p 187):
"`Scientists nowadays point out that morality in fact has deep evolutionary roots pre-dating the appearance of humankind by millions of years. All social mammals, such as wolves, dolphins and monkeys, have ethical codes, adapted by evolution to promote group cooperation. For example, when wolf cubs play with one another, they have ‘fair game’ rules. If a cub bites too hard, or continues to bite an opponent that has rolled on his back and surrendered, the other cubs will stop playing with him. In chimpanzee bands dominant members are expected to respect the property rights of weaker members. If a junior female chimpanzee finds a banana, even the alpha male will usually avoid stealing it for himself. If he breaks this rule, he is likely to lose status. Apes not only avoid taking advantage of weak group members, but sometimes actively help them."
(Harari, 2018 - `21 Lessons for the 21st Century', p 187)
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& I can highly recommend, Andy's new book: Mental Immunity (02021) !
Mental Immunity (out now: as of May 18th 2021)
(& I notice, you can order it now on that Amazon link, above... & I did ! )
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So: great webinar. I learned a lot. (JTV)
& Met lots of great people / scholars.
...What's not to like?
THE END
ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
March 29, 2022
Towards... an Evolutionary Philosophy page, on Wikipedia!
Towards... an Evolutionary Philosophy page, on Wikipedia !
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So, in thinking about, this topic, in general:
Joining a Circle of Evolutionary Philosophers...
(...which, I have joined)
I got to thinking...
Hey! - Why isn't there a Wikipedia page, on:
Evolutionary Philosophy
...?
As, I for one, sure could have used, reading one, when I was doing my (2016) PhD...! (Which resulted in: Ev Cult.)
I mean, just look at this empirical fact:
Currently, there's no page on Wikipedia on: Evolutionary Philosophy !
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...As of right now, (i.e., 30th March, 02022), there is a Wikipedia page,
on:
" List of Philosophies " ...
But... when you look closely at the E's on there, there's only this list:
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`E
Ecocentrism - Ecumenism - Egalitarianism - Egocentrism - Egoism - Eliminative materialism - Emotivism - Empiricism - Ephesian school - Epiphenomenalism - Epicureanism - Epistemological nihilism - Epistemology - Esotericism - Essentialism - Ethics - Eternalism - Eudaimonism - Existentialism - Externalism'
Source: `List of Philosophies'
(on Wikipedia, online, as at: 30th March 02022)
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...So, I ask you...
Where's... Evolutionary Philosophy ... ???
( ...on: Wikipedia ??? )
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Hey, and, when a group of scholars have their first official international conference (namely, when a discrete academic field of scholars emerges, and coalesces into a unit, for a domain in culture), it looks like, this...
Image Source: The Tree of Culture, on, The StoryAlity PhD weblog
So ...Someone should convene a First International Conference on Evolutionary Philosophy...
(...Just sayin'.)
But so anyway, with that - er - gap in the literature in mind (i.e., The problem of: no Wikipedia page existing on Evolutionary Philosophy, as yet)...
...against my better judgment, here is my: very rough, very rushed, preliminary, not-ready-to-show-yet, but-here-it-is-anyway, first attempt, at the text of such a proposed, Wikipedia page...
Eeep...? I really shouldn't be showing you this...?
This is not even a "First Draft"...!
This is: not even yet, a Preliminary Sketch, of a Concept, of an Idea, of a Notion, for, a First Draft...
Yet, here it is...!
(Am sure, you could do much better...? Well; unless, for some reason, you can't...? ...But heck, surely, somebody should publish such a page, on Wikipedia...? ...People need to know this stuff-!!!)
...Drum roll...
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A not-ready-to-show draft of a potential Wikipedia entry for the topic: `Evolutionary Philosophy’
Whipped up by: JTV
First (crummy) draft, 28th March 02020
...Maybe even, something for the PC Ev Phil Circle to: chew on / tear to shreds / rewrite / ignore ?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (except that this hasn't been published, yet. It's: just a draft.)
Evolutionary philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy (or, a cultural subdomain, within the larger cultural domain of philosophy) grounded in and informed by evolutionary science.
It is distinct from continental philosophy and analytical philosophy. However, Evolutionary Philosophy has many overlaps with Systems Philosophy, as evolutionary algorithms operate on units of biology and on units of culture, and evolution (change over time) occurs within (eco)systems.
Crucially, contemporary evolutionary philosophy avoids `Social Spencerism’ (which is often mistakenly called Social Darwinism).
Central figures in the historical development of evolutionary philosophy include Charles Darwin, Elliot Sober, Michael Ruse, Daniel C Dennett, Edward O Wilson, David Sloan Wilson, Michael Bradie, Nathalie Gontier, Ed Gibney, and Andy Norman. Other important figures in its historical development include Karl Popper. Donald T Campbell, Konrad Lorenz, Stephen Toulmin, Peter Munz, Dennis Dutton, Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, Steven Pinker, Jon Gottschall, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, and Ellen Dissanayake.
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Evolutionary scientific theory (and thus also, Evolutionary Philosophy) is customarily dated to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871),and Darwin’s many other works.
Since 1859, evolutionary science subsequently underwent the Modern Synthesis, and is currently undergoing the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
`Social Spencerism’ was a misapplication of Darwin’s ideas resulting from Spencer’s problematic ethics. Daniel C Dennett’s best-selling Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) created a resurgence of interest in evolutionary philosophy.
[edit]The term `Evolutionary Epistemology’ dates to Donald T Campbell’s 1974 essay Evolutionary Epistemology, in The Philosophy of Karl Popper.Creativity science and genius scholar Dean Keith Simonton has also published extensively on evolutionary epistemology.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_epistemology
[edit]William S. Cooper (2001) has published on logic as a branch of biology. Andy Norman (2021) has published on cognitive immunity. In 2013 John Mayfield published The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation.
See also: the evolutionary logic page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
[edit]John Dupre has published on the metaphysics of evolution in Interface Focus (2017).
See also: the evolutionary metaphysics page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
[edit]Michael Bradie has published on evolutionary ethics. David Sloan Wilson’s (2019) nonfiction book This View of Lifeand satirical novel Atlas Hugged (2021) also examines evolutionary ethics.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_ethics
[edit]Science, arts and humanities scholars on evolutionary aesthetics include Edward O Wilson,Dennis Dutton, Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall,Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, and Ellen Dissanayake.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_aesthetics
[edit]Karl Popper’s (1945) book The Open Society and its Enemies presents evolutionary political philosophy, as does David Sloan Wilson’s (2019) This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution.The Handbook of Biology and Politics (2017) examines biopolitics.
See also: the evolutionary political philosophy page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
[edit]Nathalie Gontier is founder and director of AppEEL, the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, an international group of scholars working in Applied Evolutionary Epistemology.In the 2012 article Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A new methodology to enhance interdisciplinary research between the life and human sciences, Gontier explains how AEE’s research program aims to identify: `the units, levels, and mechanisms of biological and sociocultural evolution’ (Gontier, 2012, p. 35). A co-authored (2021) article with Michael Bradie examines `Evolutionary Epistemology: Two research avenues, three schools, and a single and shared agenda’.
See also: the applied evolutionary epistemology page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
Within Applied Evolutionary Epistemology, in his 2016 PhD dissertationon cultural evolution in the domain of cinema, in 2016,2017,2018,2019,and 2020, the Evolutionary Culturology scholar J T Velikovsky of the Newcastle School of Creativitypublished on the units, levels, evolutionary mechanisms (evolutionary algorithms), and three universal laws of both biology and culture.
On this (Evolutionary Culturology) view, the structure of the unit of culture (including, entire domains in culture, and all of culture) is the fractal HOLON/parton; and is also the structure (and three laws) of units in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and all domains of knowledge (i.e., culture).
As a universal set of (1) units, (2) scale-levels, (3) evolutionary algorithms, and (4) three laws, the scientific meta-paradigm Evolutionary Culturology provides a solution to E O Wilson’s (1998) goal of consilience, the unity (vertical integration) of knowledge.The scientific meta-paradigm of Evolutionary Culturology also has many implications for Evolutionary Philosophy.
[edit]Evolutionary scholars of the arts include Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, Dennis Dutton, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, and Ellen Dissanayake. Creativity scientist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s sociocultural systems model of creativity is explicitly a Darwinian evolutionary model of cultural change in all domains in culture.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian_literary_studies
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· Popper, K. R., & Schilpp, P. A. (1974). The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1st ed.). Open Court.
· Popper, K. R. (1978). Three Worlds. University of Utah.
· Munz, Peter, 1993, Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection. Routledge.
· Sober, E. (1993). Philosophy of Biology. Westview Press.
· Dennett, D. C. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster.
· Hull, D. L., & Ruse, M. (1998). The Philosophy of Biology. Oxford University Press.
· Ruse, M. (1998). Taking Darwin Seriously: A naturalistic approach to philosophy. Prometheus Books.
· Popper, K. R. (1999). All Life is Problem Solving. Routledge.
· Chaisson, E. (2001). Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Harvard University Press.
· Hösle, V., & Illies, C. (Eds.). (2005). Darwinism & Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press.
· Gontier, N., Bendegam, J. P. v., & Aerts, D. (Eds.). (2006). Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture: A Non-Adaptationist, Systems-Theoretical Approach. Springer.
· Hull, D. L., & Ruse, M. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge University Press.
· Wilson, D. S. (2007). Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's theory can change the way we think about our lives. Delacorte Press.
· Rosenberg, A., & McShea, D. W. (2008). Philosophy of Biology: A contemporary introduction. Routledge.
· Ruse, M. (2009). Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and contemporary readings. Princeton University Press.
· Hodge, M. J. S., & Radick, G. (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Darwin(2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
· Rosenberg, A., & Arp, R. (2010). Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell.
· Dutton, D. (2010). The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press.
· Boyd, B., Carroll, J., & Gottschall, J. (2010). Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. Columbia University Press.
· Gibney, E. (2012). Evolutionary Philosophy. Kindle.
· Kuhse, H., Schüklenk, U., & Singer, P. (2015). Bioethics: An Anthology(Third ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
· Smith, D. L. (Ed.). (2016). How Biology shapes Philosophy: New foundations for naturalism. Cambridge University Press.
· Carroll, J., McAdams, D. P., & Wilson, E. O. (Eds.). (2016). Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Oxford University Press.
· Tegmark, M. (2017). Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence(First ed.). Allen Lane.
· Dennett, D. C. (2017). From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds(First Edition. ed.). W. W. Norton & Company.
· Lovelock, J. (2019). Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. Penguin.
· Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution(First ed.). Pantheon.
· Norman, A. (2021). Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. Harper Wave.
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· Darwin Online at Darwin Online
· Evolutionary Epistemology at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
· Evolutionary Epistemology at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
· The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab at AppEEL
· Evolutionary Ethics at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
· Evolutionary Philosophy weblog at EvPhil
· Andy Norman, public philosopher at AndyNorman.org
· This View of Life online magazine
· Evolutionary Culturology weblog
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· Laszlo, E. (1972). Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought. Gordon and Breach.
Unsolved problems in Evolutionary Philosophy [edit]
See also: List of Unsolved Problems in Philosophy
How to make all other `schools' of Philosophy understand: They're pointless?
How to wipe Po-Mo (and, science denial, in general) off the face (and mind) of the Earth? (...see: The EthiSizer)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0148
Notes
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
See: Laszlo, E. (1972). Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought. Gordon and Breach.
Such as: (organic molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, species, superorganisms)
Such as, in languages, on units such as: letters, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, articles, books, and in other domains of culture: science, the arts, mechanical inventions)
See: https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/2017/01/evolutionary-culturology-index.html
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle For Life. J. Murray.
See: Darwin, C. (1871). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. D. Appleton and company.
See also: http://darwin-online.org.uk/
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Dennett, D. C. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster.
See: Campbell, D. T. (1974). Evolutionary Epistemology. In P. A. Schilpp (Ed.), The Philosophy of Karl Popper (Vol. 1, pp. 413-459). La Salle.
See: https://simonton.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
See: Cooper, W. S. (2001). The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a branch of biology. Cambridge University Press.
See: Norman, A. (2021). Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think Harper Wave.
See: Mayfield, J. E. (2013). The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation. Columbia University Press.
See: Dupre, J. (2017). The metaphysics of evolution. Interface Focus, 7(20160148). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10....
Bradie, M. (1994). The Secret Chain: Evolution and Ethics. State University of New York Press. , Bradie, M. (2011). The Moral Life of Animals. In T. L. Beauchamp & R. G. Frey (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press. , Bradie, M. (2014). The Moral Lives of Animals. Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science, 9, 14-27.
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Wilson, D. S. (2020). Atlas Hugged. Redwood Publishing, LLC.
See: Wilson, E. O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1st ed.). Knopf: Distributed by Random House.
See: Dutton, D. (2010). The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press.
See: Carroll, J. (1995). Evolution and Literary Theory. University of Missouri Press.
See: Boyd, B. (2009). On The Origin Of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
See: Gottschall, J. (2012). The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
See: Dissanayake, E. (2000). Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. University of Washington Press.
See: Popper, K. R. (1945). The Open Society and its Enemies. G. Routledge & Sons.
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Peterson, S. A., & Somit, A. (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of Biology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
See: https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/home
See: Gontier, N., & Bradie, M. (2021). Evolutionary Epistemology: Two research avenues, three schools, and a single and shared agenda. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 52, 197-209. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.10...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016a). `Communication, Creativity and Consilience in Cinema: A comparative study of the top 20 Return-on-Investment (RoI) Movies and the Doxa of Screenwriting’[University of Newcastle, PhD]. Newcastle, Australia. https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/a...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016b). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts. In A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (pp. 208-246). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-00...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2017). The HOLON/parton Structure of the Meme, or, The Unit Of Culture. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition (pp. 4666-4678). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-22...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2018). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. In IRMA (Ed.), Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1590-1627). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-52...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2019). The HOLON/parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture. In D. B. A. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 795-811). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-73...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2020). Technology: Memes (Units of Culture). In M. A. Runco & S. R. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 585-604). Elsevier, Academic Press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.10...
See: https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/2017/01/evolutionary-culturology-index.html
See: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/storyality166-the-newcastle-school-of-creativity/
See: Wilson, E. O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1st ed.). Knopf: Distributed by Random House.
A (non-exhaustive) list of evolutionary Masters and PhD dissertations was compiled by J T Velikovsky at: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/storyality-97-biocultural-dissertations/
See: Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2015). The Systems Model of Creativity: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Springer.
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And that is, the:
...End, of: this (crummy), rough, rushed,
Preliminary Sketch
of a Concept of an Idea of a Notion for, a First Draft. Of: a page on Wikipedia, for:
Evolutionary Philosophy.
(And I may well regret even showing anyone this, in such a nascent form... But, it's meant to inspire you. Or, someone.)
Also it may be a horrorshow, getting it published?
...Maybe, the Wikipedia editors won't like it...?
...Who knows?
...Sometimes, you've just gotta "suck it and see"...
Namely, Do Science...!
Step (1) - Expectation (or, Theory, or Hypothesis) -- and
Step (2) - Experiment - via Trial, and Error-Correction...
So, who knows what will happen.
Maybe, the world will blow up, tomorrow...?
(...see for example, that current war in Ukraine; not good... By the way, a suggested solution to all that is, The EthiSizer, but, whatever.)
And also by the way, here's not the official logo, for the Ev Phil Circle...
(...I just made it up... I just like: logos, and fractals.)
Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
Evolutionary Culturologist
and/or
(Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
Online Multimedia Showreel...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
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PS: ...there is, this page, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_selection
and Ev Cult has quite a LOT to say (scientifically) about: that.
Namely:
The structure of the unit of culture is the fractal HOLON/parton.
(But - maybe it's not important...?)
:)
March 27, 2022
3rd International Zoom-Based Conference on the Thought of Karl Popper
3rd International Zoom-Based Conference on the Thought of Karl Popper
Hosted by Jeremy Shearmur
26th-27th March 02022
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So I attended this great Zoom-conference:
Program: (by Jeremy Shearmur)
Day 1: 26th March
10.00 Ali Paya, ‘A Very Short Note on Facts-Values Relationships’
10.30 Thomas Hainscho, ‘Philosophy, Puzzles, and Problems’
11.00 coffee break
11.30 John Wettersten, ‘The Roots of Critical Rationalism’
11.45 Rafe Champion: Discussion
12.30 Dmytro Sepetyi ‘The Scope of Popper’s Nonjustificationism’
13.00-14.00 lunch break
14.00 Peter Lugten ‘Of Clouds and Clocks’
14.30 Bruce Nielson ‘Popper without Refutation’
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Day 2 27th March (N.B. British Summer time)
15.00 Adam Chmielewski, ‘Critical Rationalism and Trust in Science’
15.30 Sheldon Richmond, ‘Popper's Barely Noticed Social Morality and Its Problems’
16.00 William Berkson, ‘The Narrow Corridor and Popper's Open Society’
16.30-17.00: coffee break
17.00 Nimrod Bar-Am, ‘The Open Society and Its History’
17.30 Jeremy Shearmur, ‘Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi’
18.00 Friedrich von Petersdorff, ‘Methodical Culturalism’s Critique of Popper’s Theoretical Approach’
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...& very well done - to Jeremy, and all...
(& I also very much enjoyed, the previous Popper Zoom Conference ! ...in September 02021)
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& at the conference, I also made mention of:
Joining a Circle of Evolutionary Philosophers
...Which, I highly recommend!
Perhaps, see also, this post:
Prosocial Commons Webinar Cafe (March 02022)
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
Evolutionary Culturologist
and/or
(Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
Online Multimedia Showreel...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
March 25, 2022
Prosocial Commons (Zoominar Cafe) !
ProSocial Commons !
(Zoominar Cafe, of: 26th March 02022)
...What is Prosocial Commons? For details, please see: Introducing The Prosocial Commons
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A blog-post
by
Velikovsky of Newcastle
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So, I've been a member of Prosocial World for a while...
& now, excitingly - there is:
& so, I attended this great webinar...
A brief excerpt below, from the PC's official webpage: Introducing the Prosocial Commons (on, TVoL)
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`What is Prosocial World (PW)? PW is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote positive change based on the most recent advances in evolutionary science. Our methods can help any group become more cooperative and adaptable at achieving its valued goals and entering into prosocial relations with other groups. We have trained over 650 group facilitators and are creating “field sites” for stewarding cultural evolution around the world. It is also part of our mission to increase knowledge and literacy in evolutionary science as an overarching worldview.
What is the Prosocial Commons (PC)? PC will provide a way for you to both support and become engaged with PW. Support includes financial support, although it can be anything within your means, and exemptions based on need are possible, so there will be no financial barrier to becoming involved. Engagement includes a broad range of co-created activities that support PW in ways that are fulfilling for you. What is your passion for changing the world in a positive direction? No matter how you answered this question (health, education, climate change, biodiversity, equity….) or your current capacity as a change agent (a teenager, a parent, a clergy member, a philanthropist, a professor, a director of a nonprofit, a corporate CEO, a spiritual seeker…) you can pursue your passion more effectively by seeing it as a process of evolution and working within the cultural ecosystem that we are helping to create. Activities can include:
Online cafés, discussion groups, and book clubs.Learning journeys, for deepening your knowledge about evolutionary science and its many implications.Action labs, for accomplishing concrete goals that the group has agreed upon.Volunteer teams that utilize your talents to develop PW as an organization.Importantly, your tax-deductible financial contributions will not only support PW in achieving its mission but will also be utilized to support projects co-created by PC members.
What will it be like to join the PC? The PC is designed to be a social experience, not just a digital experience. You will immediately begin meeting with current members, either individually or in small groups, for an introduction and exploration of common interests. You’ll also be encouraged to join existing initiatives or to explore the formation of new initiatives. Meetings can be both online and in-person, especially when place-based activities begin to take place (e.g., neighborhood groups or meet-ups in a given city).
For members who are newly encountering the modern evolutionary perspective, the PC will offer learning experiences such as advice on what to read, discussion groups, book clubs, and webinars. For professionals such as university professors and policy experts, there can be workshops resulting in academic publications, policy applications, and content reaching a wide audience on PW’s online magazine and podcast This View of Life. In all cases, learning experiences will be oriented toward action—actually doing things together that change the world in positive directions, facilitated by the infrastructure for cultural evolution that PW is helping to co-create with many other like-minded people and organizations around the world. In this fashion, the experience of joining the PC can be optimized for each member.'
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... [end of excerpt, & please see the official webpage, for more information]
For more, please see: Introducing the Prosocial Commons
...And am happy to say, I've already joined this group: (see below, where I have also Selected and Transmitted a post, from the Hylo page: https://www.hylo.com/all/post/48088)
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Ed GibneyyesterdayPROJECT#philosophy#evolution
`Towards a Circle of Evolutionary PhilosophersThe Vienna Circle began meeting in 1924, partially inspired by Einstein’s revolution in the field of physics. The group sought to create a similar revolution in philosophy, determined to ground truth in empirical findings using logical positivism. Their ultimate failure in this quest became an important historical example for the limitations of knowledge, but the Vienna Circle still serves as a shining example of the power of small groups acting with purpose towards a goal. (Other than the tragic murder of one of their founders!) (is.gd/Rg6xQ3)
Now, inspired by recent revolutions in evolutionary biology, the time is right for another group of philosophers to come together and focus on the implications for their field. Early philosophers after Darwin may have once poisoned the well for such endeavours with their abhorrent and tragic beliefs such as eugenics and Social Darwinism, but they were digging in the wrong place based on naïve and poorly understood versions of evolution. With the advent of the modern synthesis, the extended evolutionary synthesis, multilevel selection theory, and a host of other findings about the major transitions in the evolution of cooperation among living organisms, a much more mature evolutionary philosophy can now be developed.
This is already happening in isolated pockets around the world. Just a handful of prominent examples illustrate this clearly:• Dan Dennett has been writing about Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and the metaphysical implications for consciousness and free will for decades.
• Michael Ruse has written dozens of books on evolution and philosophy and edited The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics.
• The term evolutionary epistemology was first coined in 1974 by the psychologist Donald Campbell and has had notable developments from philosophers including Michael Bradie, Nathalie Gontier, and Andy Norman.
• David Livingston Smith edited a superb collection of essays in 2016 titled How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism.
• The philosopher Denis Dutton published numerous books and essays on aesthetics and his TED Talk “A Darwinian Theory of Beauty” has been viewed over 2.6 million times.
• During the 10 years he’s written Evolutionary Philosophy (evphil.com), Ed Gibney has published peer-reviewed papers on evolutionary ethics and evolutionary politics, which propose ways that evolutionary perspectives can help us bridge David Hume’s is-ought divide and rebuild the collapsed harm principle from John Stuart Mill which underlies theories of justice in liberal societies.
• Even the field of classical logic has been built on three laws of thought that only hold for static views of the universe, which, of course, have been completely undermined by Darwin.
From this brief list, we can see that all of the major branches of philosophy have been affected by evolutionary thinking. Dan Dennett’s “universal acid” has reached every one of them. Yet these exciting developments are seldom seen together by specialized philosophers or their students. This is because university departments necessarily contain diverse perspectives and are often still dominated by Continental or Analytic philosophers who sometimes ignore or are downright hostile to evolutionary and other scientific studies. (is.gd/113wNi)
This project contends that there is now a huge opportunity to bring all of these evolutionary perspectives on philosophy together. Such a collaboration could provide great benefits to the field of philosophy, to the intellectual underpinnings of the activities of Prosocial World, and to the study of the survival and flourishing of life in general.
Prosocial World (PW) is a nonprofit dedicated to “consciously evolving a world that works for all.” It was co-founded in 2020 by David Sloan Wilson as an amicable spinoff from his previous nonprofit, the Evolution Institute. With its online magazine This View of Life, over 15 full and part-time staff, and a new major grant from the John Templeton Foundation, PW is in an excellent position to serve as the online hub of a circle of evolutionary philosophers.
Elsewhere on PW, EvoS programs have demonstrated the benefit of bringing a cross-disciplinary group of scientists together from all backgrounds (both physical and social) in order to view their subjects through the lens of the latest findings of evolution. Movements are also sprouting to bring such evolutionary views to the study of topics in the humanities like art and religion.
What is to be done here? In the development of this circle of evolutionary philosophers, we can follow much of what the Vienna Circle did. Their group included academic and non-academic philosophers, as well as scientists and thinkers from a variety of other disciplines. They included teachers as well as students. They met regularly to discuss important papers and ideas. Some members wrote a manifesto for the group (which others vehemently disagreed with—a sign they weren’t using the prosocial process!). They organized conferences. They started a peer-reviewed journal. And numerous influential books were produced from this intellectual environment.
Now, with advances in technology, we can do all this and more, drawing from a worldwide audience of interested participants. Anyone eager to learn about and apply “this view of life” could join in. Altogether, this would eventually construct an independent and virtual philosophy department within the broader “Evolution University” of Prosocial World. If such a department did form, it would be unique in the world, and likely impossible to replicate in any existing universities.
The information above lays out a long-term vision for this circle of evolutionary philosophers. We can only get there through many iterations of projects and growth. And we must start from square one not knowing who will take part in this circle or how fast it will spread. As such, this particular initial project will embark upon a co-created “learning journey” to begin to explore this vast territory with practical applications in mind. The steps accomplished will very much depend on who is taking them, but a firmer plan for the future will be one of the main goals we seek.
This exploratory process will take place as part of the Prosocial Commons (PC), a new support-and-engagement group that has been formed within PW for implementing new initiatives such as this one. The initiatives will take place as part of a 12-week ‘generation’ of activity that will begin in April. The minimal commitment for becoming involved includes:
• Attend a single one-hour online meeting per week.
• One hour of preparation for each meeting.
• Notification if this commitment cannot be met on any given week.
This is a very modest commitment per capita that can result in a very large public good. Working in appropriately structured groups with meaningful objectives and a minimal commitment by each member is usually a highly rewarding experience.
Joining the Prosocial Commons requires making a financial donation to PW that can be anything within one’s means, with exemptions for those who truly can’t afford to pay anything. This creates a common pool of financial resources for the PC without imposing any financial barriers to entry. Members of the PC are free to join other initiatives or to nominate initiatives of their own. In general, we expect a high degree of synergy between initiatives, which will be in communication with each other during the 12-week cycles of activity.
To join in this exciting new collaboration, begin by taking just these two steps:
1) Go here (is.gd/vIqh3V) to make your donation to PW to become a member of the Prosocial Commons.
2) Go here (is.gd/rcHapn) to register for this project and provide some basic information about yourself and your interests.
Thank you for becoming part of this bold experiment in cultural evolution! We look forward to varying it, selecting it, and replicating it with you.
Ed Gibney
Evolutionary Philosopher
www.evphil.com
Andy Norman (is.gd/49O7XH)
Author of Mental Immunity
Executive Director, CIRCE (is.gd/kFIDtg)
David Sloan Wilson (is.gd/3ckKO5)
President, Prosocial World (is.gd/pG7yzz)SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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(...Once again, the above unit of culture, aka, unit of information [or fractal HOLON/parton, if you want to get all scientific about it] was Selected, Varied, and Transmitted, from the Hylo page: https://www.hylo.com/all/post/48088).
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And especially, see Ed Gibney's post. on:
Joining a Circle of Evolutionary Philosophers
on Ed's great blog:
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As an aside,
...my review of Ed Gibney's (2012) great book Evolutionary Philosophy , here.
& my review of Andy Norman's (2021) great book Mental Immunity , here.
& my review of David Sloan Wilson's (2021) great novel, Atlas Hugged , here.
& my (2016) Evolutionary Culturology PhD Dissertation is (free)... here.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
Evolutionary Culturologist
and/or
(Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
Online Multimedia Showreel...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
February 17, 2022
Examined Lives: Surfacing Deep Stories (Feb 02022)
TVoL's Examined Lives: Surfacing Deep Stories
(Webinar of: Feb 02022)
See: https://thisviewoflife.com/examined-lives/
A blog-post by
Velikovsky of Newcastle
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Attended this great webinar...
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Surfacing Deep Stories (X Lives Session 18)Date and Time: Thursday, February 17th, 12-1pm ET (4-5pm UTC)
Abstract, by Andy Norman:
Humanity’s affinity for stories raises fascinating questions. What are stories, exactly? Why are we so fond of them? Why do they impact us so deeply? Is it true that "deep emotional narratives...structure (our) view of self and others” (Dorroll and Dorroll, 2020)? Do “deep narratives” govern our lives in ways we only dimly perceive? If so, who’s in the driver’s seat: us or them? Can we bring problematic deep stories to the surface? Can we examine them, take them apart, and rebuild them? Such questions intersect with evolutionary psychology: Did storytelling help our ancestors survive? If so, how? By cementing tribal bonds? By codifying useful information in a memorable form? Are stories a by-product of deeper cognitive structures? Did homo sapiens as a phenotype co-evolve with story as a symbotype? Is our relationship with stories symbiotic? Are (some) stories mind-symbionts? Are others mind-parasites?
Some sources for the ambitious:
Deep Stories, Nostalgia Narratives, and Fake News: Storytelling in the Trump Era
Deep Stories, a book about storytelling in the digital age
Narrative Identity and Meaning Making
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Thanks again to Andy & Sage & TVoL & all...
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And, am happy to report we solved all the world's problems, in that great webinar... (~JTV)
THE END.
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Questions & Comments, made in the X-Lives Zoom-chat:
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04:01:53 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Call for Reviewers - IJACDT journal! (& feel free to spread the word)
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS
International Journal of Art, Culture, Design and Technology invites applications for Philosophy, Aesthetics, and,Art & Culture journal-article peer reviewers.
We are a growing journal, currently expanding our scope - and thus our Editorial Review pool - to include Philosophy, Aesthetics, and, Art & Culture experts. We offer reviewing experience and guidance (to those that want it) to emerging scholars, for whom this would be an appropriate level of experience. If of interest, please submit an online application via: https://www.igi-global.com/journals/become-a-reviewer/.
(The publisher will be adding more Research Field checkboxes to the site, so please check any that are relevant to you, and the Editor will get to know your work better through the Statement and CV you submit.)
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Associate Editor: Dr J T Velikovsky PhD, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
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04:06:21 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: The Dorroll & Dorroll (2020) ref, in Andy's intro text: `Finding connection virtually through shared deep stories' https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12561
04:05:08 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: Just as a note: our VoiceAmerica special on The Power of Spiritual Storytelling has had 10,000 listeners in its first two weeks. The link is below. 11 authors including Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden and others from that “meme”: I’m the host but I don’t necessarily “agree” with all the points of view: discussion include mediation, shamanic relations in nature, personal maturation, the power of personal stories in our lives: https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/135509/the-power-of-spiritual-storytelling
04:09:53 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: If of interest - my 1995 (& 2011, 4th ed) book on Narrative/Screenwriting, attached... (a summary of story templates, for storytellers...) see: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/storyality-28-screenwriting-manuals-since-1913/ i.e., Velikovsky, J. T. (2011, 4th Edn.). The Feature Film Screenwriter's Workbook.
04:10:42 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: For general interest, a list of TVOL articles relating to stories and storytelling:
04:10:47 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/solving-friction-with-fiction-cooperation-co-ordination-and-the-evolution-of-hunter-gatherer-storytelling/04:10:50 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/change-your-stories-change-your-reality/04:10:54 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/turning-fiction-into-reality-a-conversation-with-stuart-libman/04:10:57 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/the-chain-that-links-science-to-story/04:11:00 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/the-riddle-and-the-range-of-art/04:11:03 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/commentary/bridging-the-humanities-and-the-sciences/04:11:06 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/memetic-isolation-and-cultural-speciation-an-important-strategy-for-intentional-community-development/04:11:09 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://thisviewoflife.com/star-wars-christmas-and-the-constraints-of-secular-influence/
04:11:38 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thanks Sage, great stuff!
04:12:03 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Re a great Q that Andy posed: `Did storytelling help our ancestors survive, eg By cementing tribal bonds, & by codifying useful information in a memorable form?' As examples, see: https://talkingstories.uoregon.edu/ (great website by the great evolutionary narratology scholar, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama)
04:12:54 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: & 3 x great books, by personality/narrative psychology researcher, Dan P McAdams: `Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities & Sciences' (co-edited, 2016); `The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology' (5th ed, 2009); `The Strange Case of Donald J Trump: A Psychological Reckoning' (2020)
04:15:51 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: I actually conducted one of those sessions for David Sloan Wilson at SUNY Binghamton… again showing that that kind of let person experience really transcends context …
04:16:27 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: first person (computer keeps changing it)
04:21:33 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Re another great Q Andy raised: `Are stories a by-product of deeper cognitive structures? Did homo sapiens as a phenotype co-evolve with story as a symbotype?' ...I suggest, all 3 (all: 1. biology, 2. culture, & 3. narratives) are structured as fractal HOLON/partons. (my encyclopedia chapter: Velikovsky, J. T. (2020). Technology: Memes (Units of Culture). In M. A. Runco & S. R. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity (3rd ed., pp. 585-604). Elsevier Science & Technology Books. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.23862-5)
04:23:06 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Further to Sage's point (or `controversial claim' ? :) - just on viewing any/every `life story' (a personal narrative) as, a monomyth (i.e., as: problem-solving): Velikovsky, J. T. (2018). Darwin & Kubrick, Joe Campbell & Me: Eminent-Genius and Everyday-Joe Heroes on a Journey. The Journal of Genius and Eminence, 2(2), 55-69. https://doi.org/10.18536/jge.2017.02.2.2.06
04:25:12 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Dan McAdams' (2006) Three Tiers of Personality:
Tier 1. My Dispositional Traits (e.g., OCEAN [Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism] / aka the `Big 5' traits) Tier 2. My Characteristic Adaptations (my specific: goals, concerns, stresses) Tier 3. My Integrative Life Story (my `significance and individuality'; or, `unique personal story')
04:25:27 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: Patrick Hogan on Emotional Narratives engages that idea
04:26:29 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: Yes, i think when we toggle into first person that is when we identify with characters in stories in that deep way— we want the hero and heroine to fall in love etc.
04:27:06 From Richard Holeton to Everyone: Andy said “subversive” like this is a pejorative term, in contrast to doing “good.” I have always thought of subversive as a good thing, that art (good art) *should* be subversive or else it’s merely entertainment.
04:27:42 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: Depend on what one is subverting …
04:28:55 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: sometimes cultural environments don’t allow us to toggle into first person…
04:30:49 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: There is a major program now from the Parliament of the World’s Religions on the racial stories that have been told globally that have ended up with global racism narratives.
04:32:33 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: HERE IS THAT LINK: https://blog.g20interfaith.org/2022/01/25/racism-in-the-media-manufacturing-hate/
04:33:48 From Florian Schedler to Everyone: Matthew Salesses book “Craft in the real world” highlights that there is a lot more cultural variation in the function and elements of a story than what we think of as the typical western hero’s journey
04:33:57 From Richard Holeton to Everyone: John Gardner’s two plots (which are really different versions of the same plot): Someone takes a journey, or A stranger comes to town.
04:34:21 From Richard Holeton to Everyone: “there are only two plots” (Gardner)
04:36:49 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Re: Kathleen's point about national stories: people usually have a conscience, whereas nations don't :)
04:37:51 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: South Africa had a conscience .. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, etc.
04:39:41 From Gail Greer to Everyone: The upward mobility story is the elite's way of bridging inequality.
04:40:38 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: Yes, and the Vatican has still no rescinded the Doctrine of Discovery which justified the subjugation of native peoples
04:41:54 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Good point Steve. (Starting with: FW deKlerk 1993... better late than never :)
04:42:11 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Some Narratology lit reviews I did for my PhD: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/storyality-27-narratology-since-plato-a-brief-lit-review/ - and - https://storyality.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/storyality-28-screenwriting-manuals-since-1913/
04:44:04 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: In a mature discussion between Eastern and Western spiritualities that issue of “illusion” is solved by understanding the simultaneity of absolute and relative reality. In relative reality it can all be seen as a sliding scale of “illusion” BUT is empirical realities the rules are different etc…. this also involved the OBSERVER EFFECT in quantum physics etc.
04:44:58 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: I’ve observed scientists be blinkered by stories in arenas outside the realm of science
04:45:12 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: AMEN to that!
04:48:28 From Diane Sunar to Everyone: A hypothesis is a story; "critical thinking" is discovering what needs to be done to test (potentially falsify) it. But from another pov, a story can be "true", even if clearly fictional, if it represents human experience (like Steve's ref to A River Runs Through It)
04:48:57 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: a big Yes to Diane’s comment
04:49:39 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: Book: The Meaning of the Body (Johnson?)
04:49:39 From Richard Holeton to Everyone: Yes Diane!
04:50:15 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: From my https://storyality.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/storyality-23-define-a-film-story/ "Jon Gottschall’s definition of story from The Storytelling Animal (2012): `Story = Character + Problem + Attempted Extrication’ (Gottschall 2012, p. 52)"
04:51:41 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: I got fixated last night tracing a several years love story on a TV series I was not able to follow…just finding the peak moments on YouTube…which were there BECAUSE other people identified with it over the years etc.
04:53:52 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge.
04:54:10 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: I also like Harari's points in `21 Lessons' about how "life is not a story" (and, on resisting `national' stories)...
04:55:03 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: Yes, the story of how Harvard’s three most famous biologists stuck with Stable Earth and against Plate Tectonics until the bitter end… and two of them had authored the early views on which Plate Tectonics was actually based… allopatric speciation… G. G. Simpson, Ernst Mayer and P.J. Darlington…. INTERESTING paradox
04:55:29 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: Article by Rauch if you don’t want to read the whole book: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-constitution-of-knowledge
04:56:28 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: For wonderful analysis of stories in film, check out this YouTube channel: Like Stories of Old
04:57:07 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: Or: impulse towards good as opposed to bad hierarchy
04:57:18 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: Some individuals earn rank
04:59:10 From Ed Gibney to Everyone: Here is the article I mentioned from Keith Stanovich on how scientific thinking helps people to get things right. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/
05:00:48 From David Ferrell to Everyone: Gotta go. I vote for topic 3, although these all look to have potential.
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And - as a personal antidote to Deep Stories,
I can highly recommend, Andy's new book: Mental Immunity (02021) !
Mental Immunity (out now: as of May 18th 2021)
(& I notice, you can pre-order it now on that Amazon link, above... & I did ! )
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So: great webinar. I learned a lot. (JTV)
& Met lots of great people / scholars.
...What's not to like?
THE END
ROLL CREDITS.
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