April5th

This is the reading for 5th April 2009, Krishnamurti, Freedom from the known Chapter 1 and 2.
http://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known/jiddu-krishnamurti.php

Good luck
Joyce

Feedback for research

I would like to share my Academic Argumentation Blog/ Any feedback?
ANy improvements?
You can find it at
http://aa4research.blogspot.com/

Joyce

Paper for discussion

Vicki sent this paper for discussion- the link is below.

Matheson, C., (2007). In Praise of Bureaucracy? A Dissent From Australia, Administration & Society ; 39; 233, Retrieved 1/6/2008
http://aas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/2/233

If anyone has difficulty downloading it, please let me know and I can send you the full version by email
Joyce

World Conference

Hi everyone. It is so exciting to be going to Korea to the conference in philosophy.
I include the link to the conference website
http://www.wcp2008.or.kr/invitation/invitation.asp
I will bring back as many ideas and papers as possible

interesting places to surf

Hi everyone,
I have been away on holidays , so no posts.
This website is worth a look. It is co-authored by the author of Arts and Letters Daily and attempts a balanced view of climate change discussion. It is a very polarised look but good things to think about

http://climatedebatedaily.com


I also found BigThink which is definitely worth visiting, and many times, It is marketed as Facebook for intellectuals- probably way overdue.

http://www.bigthink.com
I look forward to your comments

Toowoomba Philosophy CoP

Welcome to The Toowoomba Philosophy Group and it's Blog.
We meet every Sunday night to discuss a wide variety of issues. If you are interested to join the group or know more about us, please send me an E-mail
drjoycearnold@gmail.com

Ethical CoPs

A CoP in academia towards ethics teaching
This paper talks about many CoPs for students, in academia, academic institutions and the global academic community. If ethics, caring, responsibility is embedded in these CoPs and academic administration pays heed to the informal CoPs, we will tend towards ethical behaviour and teaching ethical behaviour. We will treat others with ethical behaviour if they are part of our community, thus communities are basic to the construction of ethics. This social aspect of ethics, implies feminist principles of ethics, in particular quoting Noddings .

Steps to build an ethical community(Cooper)
1 focus on interdependent areas of lives
2 make ethical deliberation central to or conversation
3 public officials must rethink their roles
4 public officials need to create arenas for conversation
5 all parties need to understand the the road is fraught with dangers and embrace them
6 long term engagement is essential
7 reinvent social science
may I add
8 responsibility towards the ecology of community
9 sustainability
10 the environment is an important member of our communities
11 care factor


References
Cooper, T. (1997). Building an Ethical Community: Queensland University of Technology.
available USQ library

Noddings, N. (1984). Caring. A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Educaton. London, USA: University of California Press. Available USQ library- when I return it lol.

Weathersby, R., & White, J. (2004). Ethics and Community in Management Education [Electronic Version]. Academic Exchange Quarterly 8(1) Retrieved 18/12/2007 from http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5jun2616w4.htm.