Feb
13
2014
In February 2014 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation, titled "Toward an Aesthetic Epistemology: Transforming Thinking through Cybernetic Epistemology and Anthroposophy."
The following is the abstract and a slideshow presentation that pulls out the crux of my arguments.
Abstract
The complexity, subtlety, interlinking, and scale of many problems faced individually and collectively in today’s rapidly changing world...
Apr
15
2012
All epistemologies are observer-dependent; i.e. there is no single epistemology that applies to all possible observers, because every observer is unique in some way. The necessary inclusion of the observer in any description of the world is a deeply obvious and yet profound principle. It was neatly expressed in Heinz von Foerster’s article Cybernetics...
Apr
11
2011
It's been a while since I've posted here. I'm working on my dissertation and hopefully I'll post some bits when I feel they are polished enough. In the meantime, my sister is visiting from Durango and we had a great time at the Portland Japanese Gardens. It rained (expected), showed (whaaaat?) and sunned (OMG!)...
Feb
02
2010
I was asked to draw my dissertation (which is in its beginning stages).
Here's what happened: