Sally, List:
Thank you for a strong beginning to a thoughtful paper.
Below, I copy a recent post to the "Friends of Wisdom" list serve which
mentions the C S Peirce "library"... It seems germane to the generic nature of
the discussion that will follow.
Frankly, I am at the edge of despair with the difficulties of transcending the
"Communicational Communities" or otherwise known among bureaucrats as the
"silos" of disciplines. My concern is not the academic politics that Joe seeks
to address. Rather, it is the epistemology / ontology of the sciences in
relation to how we govern our society.
Thus, the Friends of Wisdoms group has caught my attention as a group of
individuals who see the communicational communities as a web of forces working
first for the "home discipline" and only secondarily for the general social
weal.
BTW, I cannot recall seeing the term "home discipline" prior to your post. I
find it to be an excellent term, less offensive than the conceptualization of
disciplinary silos. If you are the originator of the term, congratulations on
your coinage; if not, perhaps you would comment on its source?
Cheers
Jerry
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From: Terry Bristol <[email protected]>
Date: August 25, 2011 4:00:50 PM EDT
Subject: Fwd: Ready to get your wisdom on?!
Wisdomers –
This guy (see below) is rather interesting.
His concept of wisdom is broad and has been focused largely but not exclusively
on the best of the California Enlightenment (viz human potential movement).
I think this strategy is something that Nick et al should be thinking about.
I know that there have been minor efforts in this direction already.
But Johnson is 'an enabler' who understands the media – how to present in the
modern social media context.
Nick, your noble efforts to encourage the universities to shift to wisdom R&D
is, I think, having some success – at least there are many parallel efforts.
However, just as publishers and bookstores are becoming less important in
circulating content, so the universities are becoming less important in
education.
I just attended a writers conference (Willamette Writers Conference). The take
home message was simple: the new technology strongly favors the writer, the
content producers.
The importance of traditional publishers and bookstores is declining rapidly.
And they lack the skills. Johnson is an example of the sort of person it will
be valuable to partner with – and/or emulate.
I am working with my daughter and her boyfriend (viz it is a generational
thing) to develop a website that will be branded on me – Terry Bristol.
My role is to be a 'curator' of the philosophical content. (Curator is a new,
expanding, term to designate one who is a sort of expert in an area.)
The curator brings together and manages a collection – in this case it will be
philosophy of science (and engineering).
I think it is fair to say that Rafe Champion has served as a curator of some of
Popper's material.
The strategy is not like the C.S. Peirce archive – http://www.cspeirce.com/
This is a huge static collection of articles – an online library.
Listservs are another early attempt at creating dialogue and education. Nice
but with limited functionality and success – methinks.
I don't have a fixed concept and it will undoubtedly change – yearly if not
monthly.
But I would like to have folks in Friends of Wisdom consider partnering.
Everything MUST be short and brief – with follow-up links for those who want
them.
(Look at TEDtalks – if you haven't already. Everything is limited to twenty
minutes. VERY HIGH IMPACT!!!)
More soon.
Terry
Terry Bristol, President
<http://www.isepp.org>
Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy
3941 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland OR 97214
503-232-2300, cell 503-819-8365
“Science would be ruined if it were to withdraw entirely into narrowly defined
specialties. The rare scholars who are wanderers-by-choice are essential to
the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.” Benoit Mandelbrot
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