Thinking carefully about inclusiveness: evidence from European guilds

Thinking slow about thinking fast

In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman attributes experientially-learned real-world coping skills to an " associative machine " acting on declarative memories of facts and events. While this attribution is probably correct for the unfamiliar types of situations that are the subject of his famous experiments conducted with Amos Tversky, we argue that experientially-learned real-wo...

Dimensions for Thinking About Thinking

We start by making a distinction between mind and cognition, and by positing that cognition is an aspect of mind. We propose as a working hypothesis a Separability Hypothesis which posits that we can factor off an architecture for cognition from a more general architecture for mind, thus avoiding a number of philosophical objections that have been raised about the "Strong AI" hypothesis. We the...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Gestures as evidence of student thinking about physics

Introduction Gestures, the spontaneous hand or body movements that normally accompany face-to-face conversation, are potentially an important component of interpersonal communication. This paper presents an episode of conversation among physics students and a teaching assistant in which gestures figure prominently in the discussion. My purpose is to illustrate that attention to gestures can be ...

Thinking Differently about Sustainability: Experiences from the Uk Open University Thinking Differently about Sustainability: Experiences from the Uk Open University

Systems thinking is often invoked as a panacea for dealing with issues of sustainable development. Imperatives towards being more holistic—getting the bigger picture—are often coupled with a need for greater interdisciplinarity— joined-up-thinking—particularly amongst triple bottom line disciplines of economics, social studies and natural sciences. So why are systems thinking courses not more p...