Passion as motivator

Read Steve Denning's essay on passion in the workplace.

http://www.stevedenning.com/passion_communities_practice.html

Passion
and communities of practice
in the workplace
Whatever will they think of next.?

philosophy and language

This website is a non-profit encyclopedia that offers free access to academic papers on philosophy, edited by James Fieser & Bradley Dowden.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/

This is one of the papers- for you discussion.
Mills, A.P.(2007) Knowledge of language, The Internet Encyclopadia of Philosophy . Retrieved 30/11/2007http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/knowlang.htm

anthropology and war

An ethics code of anthropologists working with the military and CIA.
I suppose it dosnt matter what knowledge is used if it provides the greater good.
Where do you draw the line?
What of the slippery slope argument. The role of the social anthropologist and torture?
Is there an absoute moral right here?
So war is also morally right? or wrong?
Please post a comment.

Panel Releases Report on Anthropologists' Work With the Military, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Retrieved 30/11/2007

http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=3512&utm_source=at&um_medium=en&commented=1#c007627

Interesting read about the side of Freud that the academics ignore or prefer not to know about. The link to Freud's study photo is delightful.
Freud Museum


Moses and Monotheism is definitiely worth a read- his last book.

Don't forget that Freud won the Noble prize- for literature!
So was Freud really such an obsessional and rational scientist?


(2006) Occult and Personality- Freud
http://rochester92.vox.com/library/post/dr-freud.html

Please post a comment

One for the chess players

Philosophy and history of chess- some interesting moves in this paper.

Feldman,S., (2007) Check Republics, The New Humanist retrieved 26/11/2007 at http://newhumanist.org.uk/1631

The Theory of everything?

This article in Economist.com is of interest.

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10170958

Firstly Garrett Lisi presents as a home-grown unscientific type who has 'discovered' mind boggling physics, E8 and 248 dimension to the universe, and yet he remains unpublished and all his work is online

Is he a thoroughly modern Internet surfer, as well as the traditional type of surfer, who hasn't time for publishing?

or manic?

or wrong?

or too bright for traditional science?

Why is the universe speaking a mathematical language?

What does the theory of everything tell us?

is it necessary?

is it a spiritual issue?

does it make coffee?

And then 20 particles remain unaccounted for, even though some of them are too large to be seen.

Surely the scientific brain is not so obsessional and rationalising, it is highly creative and imaginative.

I Look forward to your comments

Joyce

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