Author Archives: Kathleen

David Filippone

Hi Jack, Thanks for pointing out my ‘abstractness, I will try to keep that in mind for future posts. I’ve been trying to respond to Ron’s comment but apparently the system was acting up and wouldn’t allow me to comment … Continue reading

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TSK Online Course in Subject and Object: Week One.

Week One  Reading: TSK pp. 31-34 (Start reading at the last full paragraph on p. 31)  Practice: TSK Ex. 9A    Hello everyone, and welcome to this program!  In working with the theme of subject and object, we are going … Continue reading

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Readings and Assignments for the Online Program, Fall 2007.

Please accept our apologies for not having this up sooner. We were experiencing technical difficulties outside the creative inquiry system. Thank you for your patience. Kathleen Week One: TSK pp. 31-34 (Ex. 7); Ex. 9 A Week Two: TSK pp. 166-171 Ex. … Continue reading

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James van Pelt

Yale Divinity School Initiative in Religion, Science and Technology I’m the program coordinator for Yale’s nascent initiative exploring the interface between religion, science I also serve as educational technology advisor to many of the public school districts in Connecticut. In … Continue reading

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James van Pelt- Q&A for March 2007 First-Person Inquiry Conference at Ratna Ling

1. What is the main question or set of concerns that inspires you to attend this conference? For many years I’ve privately studied the nature of experience as it emerges from the roots of being into the physical domain via … Continue reading

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Steve Torrance

Steve studied philosophy at Sussex and Oxford in the 1960s and early 1970s. His doctoral thesis was on ethics. He became interested in philosophical questions concerning non-human and artificial minds, in particular on their ethical status. This led to a … Continue reading

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Steve Torrance

What is the main question or set of concerns that inspires you to attend this conference? My main interest in this workshop concerns the relation between conceptions of consciousness and conceptions of ethics. How do the two interrelate? Can we … Continue reading

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Walt Anderson

Statement from Walt Anderson (Excerpt from work in progress) The human species is migrating out of a past in which people regarded the conditions of life as ordained by forces beyond them (nature, tradition, gods) into a present in which … Continue reading

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Walter Truett Anderson, Ph.D

Walter Truett Anderson, Ph.D., is a political scientist, futurist, journalist and author of 17 books on a wide range of subjects including political and cultural change, technology and the environment. His most recent books are The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East … Continue reading

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Claire Petitmengin – First-Person Consciousness Conference

I would like to share with the conference participants and discuss with them what I learned, what I discovered, what surprised me the most since I began to study lived experience concretely, with specific first and second person methods. I … Continue reading

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