Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: ICE Report Datum: zondag 27 april 2014 12:29 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 502 Amsterdam, April 27rd, 2014 A CRITIQUE OF THE ICE ANALYSIS of American Polarization by McIntosh and Phipps - JOE CORBETT In a paper titled “Depolarizing the American Mind”, Steve McIntosh and Carter Phipps of the Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE) say that political gridlock in Washington comes from a political culture rooted in the people who elect their political leaders, so that political gridlock quite literally 'represents' the polarization within culture itself as a causal factor. So there we have it in a nutshell, according to ICE: Got division and crisis in governance? Blame the people! But the reactionary hilarity doesn't end there. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett22.html THE IMAGINATIVE GENERALIZATION OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY - MATTHEW DAVID SEGALL The main outlines of the doctrine of evolution, on Whitehead’s reading, must be “[absorbed]…as the guiding methodology of all branches of science.” Grasping the transdisciplinary significance of evolution requires the “negative capability” mentioned earlier, a willingness to consign oneself to the speculative risks Whitehead’s philosophy of organism has proposed for thinking. Because all our knowledge depends upon abstraction, the point is not to avoid it but to do it gently, such that our knowing leaves the concrete life of the world unharmed and intact. Whitehead’s contribution to the philosophical integration of the special sciences and their abstract domains of relevance is derived from what he calls his method of “imaginative generalization.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/segall1.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html