Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Tue 09 Aug 2022
- Episode Link
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Alicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College and the author of Dynamics in Action, a text that many consider to have laid the foundation for how we think about complexity in our society. So Alicia is a philosopher for this moment in human history.
Show Notes:
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (03:31)
- Live the questions
- Duino Elegies
- User Friendly by Cliff Kuang (11:50)
- Herbert Simon and the importance of information diet (12:50)
- The Self-Organizing Universe by Erich Jantsch (15:00)
- Dave Snowden Cynefin Framework (20:00)
- Aristotelian four causes (22:30)
- Emergence (27:40)
- Network thinking (28:20)
- Mereology (31:00)
- Order Out of Chaos by Prigogine, Stengers, and Toffler (32:15)
- Complicated vs complex (38:00)
- John Holland "fail safe and safe fail" (40:00)
- Graceful Extensibilityby David Woods (41:20)
- Vector Analytica (43:20)
- Healthy relationality (54:00)
- Trust (59:15)
- Danielle Allen (01:01:00)
- Flourishing Commons newsletter (01:02:00)
- Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
- Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
- Lightning round (01:03:20)
- Book: Order Out of Chaos
- Passion: reading broadly
- Heart sing: how design creates context that also creates affordances
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- User Friendly by Cliff Kuang
- Screwed up: attention to ideas over people-orientated application of those ideas
- Find Alicia online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
