On a Top-Quality Humanity Scholar

Top-Down Research, Generalists, and Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research?

Researchers long ago demonstrated that top-down, inference-based approaches to research have comfortably co-existed with more traditional bottom-up, hypotheses-driven research. Yet most faculty omit any mention of top-down approaches in direct instruction or training of students, despite these approaches being both relatively common, occasionally necessary, and considerably more efficient than ...

Humanity on the Threshold A Critical Enquiry

Journal of Futures Studies, November 2005, 10(2): 1 12 For quite some time already, there has been a debate on humanity reaching an evolutionary threshold. This is becoming a hot topic because of the exciting aspects it covers. To start with – humanity reaching a new threshold has a significant dose of drama: it is important, it is challenging and it holds some danger should we fail to be up to...

A flash of humanity.

On the survival of humanity

What moral reasons, if any, do we have to ensure the long-term survival of humanity? This article contrastively explores two answers to this question: according to the first, we should ensure the survival of humanity because we have reason to maximize the number of happy lives that are ever lived, all else equal. According to the second, seeking to sustain humanity into the future is the approp...

Humanity 2009

Chris Baldwin, a devised theatre practitioner and co-editor of a practical guide to devising theatre, lists the devising director’s responsibilities as building a production and performance team, timetabling, compiling documentation of the rehearsal process and, crucially, fulfilling the role of spectator as the devised show is developed and rehearsed. Described by Baldwin as ‘at the centre of ...