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    • It takes a village… 25/09/2021

      The International Centre for the Study of Giftedness (ICBF) organised in cooperation with the universities of Münster, Nijmegen and Osnabrück its seventh ‘Bildungskongress‘. They invited me to give an evening lecture and because of all the uncertainties related to the COVID pandemic this lecture was pre-recorded and streamed. An entirely new way to contribute to and … Continue reading “It takes a village…”

    • Talking about Don’t Be Fooled 05/07/2017

      Now live with Jan Bransen Geplaatst door Routledge Philosophy and Religion op Woensdag 5 juli 2017

    • How to support common sense in Academia?

      An important bit of insight in behavioural expertise is that it really requires a lot of experience. Practical wisdom, or phronesis, as Aristotle called it, is the kind of expertise – if you would call it that – that would contribute to the intellectual improvement of our capacity to live by enlightened normative expectations. There … Continue reading “How to support common sense in Academia?”

    • Is common sense reactionary? 08/05/2017

      No, common sense is not reactionary. I argue in the book that the basic slogan “Automatic pilot if possible and investigative attitude if necessary” shows that the capacity for critical thinking is a crucial part of common sense. When I wrote the book it seemed the principal opponent of common sense was a scientistic kind … Continue reading “Is common sense reactionary?”

    • Humaning 07/05/2017

      The basic idea of ‘humaning’ is to draw the reader’s attention to an extremely interesting human capacity, namely that of relating meaningfully to one’s own activity. People live (verb) their life (noun); they account for what they do. I explain in the book how the fact that we are talking animals, i.e. that we have … Continue reading “Humaning”

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