The Differentiated Polity as Narrative

The Good Polity

Depicting a good polity, one that is morally superior and desired, is relatively easy. Utopian writers have drawn various designs for centuries. Some prefer direct democracies to representative ones; some see much merit in local government; others extol the merits of world government. There is surely much merit to this visionary approach, if only because it allows one to clarify the values to w...

The Cultural Foundations of a Republican Polity: Culture as Communication

Fulfilling its Promise - Information Polity as an International Journal

Programming as mathematical narrative

This paper describes a narrative-oriented approach to the design and the analysis of a computational system and a set of activities for mathematical learning. Our central contention is that programming can offer a key to resolving the tension between the different representational structures of narrative and mathematical formalism. In the course of describing our approach, we make a distinction...

Human Evolution as Narrative

Have hero myths and folktales influenced our interpretations of the evolutionary past? Scientists are generally aware of the influence of theory on observation. Seldom do they recognize, however, that many scientific theories are essentially narratives. The growth of a plant, the progress of a disease, the formation of a beach, the evolution of an organism – any set of events that can be arrang...