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Design Thinking
What is Design Thinking? Design thinking refers to the set of cognitive, strategic and practical procedures used by designers in the process of designing, and to the body of knowledge that has been developed about how people reason when...
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Bridging Epistemologies Framework
What is the Bridging Epistemologies Framework? The framework Cook and Brown helps to think of knowledge in an organizational context and understanding why and how we know things collectively. Their model strengthens the link between...
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Biases and Errors in Decision Making
What are some common biases and errors in Deicsion Making? here are a plethora of cognitive biases, also known as subconscious errors, that have been studied by psychologists, and it is important to understand that each individual will...
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8 Types of Organizational Culture
What are the 8 Types of Organizational Culture? Adhocracy Culture, Clan Culture, Customer-Focused Culture, Hierarchy Culture, Market-Driven Culture, Purpose-Driven Culture, Innovative Culture, Creative Culture.
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Wicked Problems in Entreprneurship
What are Wicked Problems in entrepreneurship? A business problem might be wicked if it includes: Stakeholder disagreements. Complex roots of the problem. A lack of precedent for the problem. Difficulty solving the problem or identifying...
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SECI Model
What is the SECI Model? The SECI model of knowledge dimensions is a model of knowledge creation that explains how tacit and explicit knowledge are converted into organizational knowledge. The aim is to change the explicit knowledge of...
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Recovering Intentionality
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) highlights the core difference between the social sciences and natural sciences, involving intentionality.
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Outdated Dualisms
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) describes how the modern political debate has moved beyond the old markets vs. state distinctions.
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Interpreting the Law - Context
Philosopher Scott Soames (USC) highlights the vital role that context plays in matters of legal interpretation.
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Interpreting the Law - An Example
Philosopher Scott Soames (USC) uses the celebrated example of the Smith gun case to illustrate the relation between linguistic ambiguity and legal interpretation.
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Far Transfer
Ben Nelson (Minerva) speaks passionately about the importance of developing the appropriate cognitive tools for students.
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How to Read Shakespeare
“How to Read Shakespeare” explains how to read a Shakespearean play.
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Chomsky From a Non-Chomskyan
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, a "non-Chomskyan", pays allegiance to Noam Chomsky’s profound contributions to linguistics.
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Historical Context
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra warns us not to essentialize, urging us to place the notion of "Asian Values" in historical context.
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These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
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Uncovering Meaning
Historian David Armitage, University of Harvard, relates how examining the historical evolution of key terms and phrases can uncover the many sedimented meanings associated with them, thereby pointing the way to deeper historical...
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Modernity
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes the different experiences and associations that non-Westerners have with the notion of modernity.
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Questioning Motivations
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, just as a skillful novelist sheds light on the motivations of her protagonists, a questioning of the motivations of those in central positions of authority will help us better...