Things which now get buzzed as “AI” (“artificial intelligence”) — large language models, statistical predictionRead More
Tag: philosophy
He Gave Us Each Other: In Memory of Jeffrey Pratt Beedy
Today, I gathered with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, former students, former teachers, and former staff membersRead More
Disciplined Making
This was going to be a short post about a couple ideas from a singleRead More
Generous Thinking Now
“We’re in a bad time for everybody. There are very few models as to ourRead More
The Strength of Kindness
1. Take a moment, settle yourself, and note your immediate emotional response to these words:Read More
The Good, The Bad, and the Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity is one of those words, like openness and diversity, that many people in academiaRead More
The Value in the Public Good
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many fissures and failures in U.S. society, some of whichRead More
Thinking About Generous Thinking
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking helps anyone involved in education think about priorities and assumptions, aboutRead More
Lessons for Higher Ed from the Survival of Independent Bookstores
Another day, another report of an independent bookstore … doing pretty well. After some apocalypticRead More
Methods of Life
from The Education of John Dewey: A Biography by Jay Martin: A child in Dewey’s school was instantlyRead More
