Learning Complexity

A fourth concept that Morin discusses in The Reform of Thought  is the system, or organization. If I understand Morin correctly, then he mea...

I've been thinking of boundaries as included middles, or zones of engagement, which transcend the separation of entities into discrete u...

A second characteristic to emerge from thinking of boundaries as included middles is circular causality, or the feedback loop. In The Reform...

The included middle  of Lupasco and Nicolescu gives me a convenient handle for understanding Edgar Morin's concept of the dialogic , whi...

So  Mending Wall  does not present us with a binary choice between the discrete individualism of reductionism and classical logic on the one...

So in his poem Mending Wall , does Robert Frost really want to tear down our walls? No, he doesn't. That is too naive a reading, and Fro...

In a few weeks, I will deliver a presentation about boundaries to the Southern Humanities Conference convening this year in Savannah, GA. Th...