Looking forward to digesting your ideas, Michael, they look very
trans-disciplinary, appropriate for the complex reality we collectively
live in.

Just wanted to point out a small grammatical error on the second paragraph
of your blog:

 These experiences led me to conclude that I needed make metaphysics
palatable to my students.

Wishing you WELLth
Gien
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> Hi Gregg and All TOK Folks:
>
> Thank you Gregg, for that very gracious introduction and warm welcome. It
> was thrilling to talk with you yesterday, and see we are doing the same
> thing, if in different words. I appreciate your mentioning my books. My
> third one, Unified Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Metaphysics, Ethics, and
> Liberal Arts, technically started just after I graduated from high school.
>
> Two of my heroes are A.N. Whitehead, and as you note, Mary Midgley. The
> idea of philosophy as critic of abstractions, and meta-discipline, strikes
> me as central to a major reformation as the how and why we teach general
> education/liberal arts. Let's expand that from incoming or First Year
> Students, to liberal arts senior re-orientation (I prefer re-orientation
> instead of "capstone"), and then to graduate school seminars and
> re-orientation. My third book, Unified Philosophy, integrates, for
> starters, human factors engineering/ergonomics, sociology, anthropology,
> metaphysics, mereology, game theory, cybernetics, functions, sets,
> continental/analytic thought. Academia has isolated liberal arts from
> philosophy (metaphysics), and specialization. As Ricoeur might say,
> reintroduce specialization into liberal arts.
>
> Thanks again for the warm welcome, and happy to join TOK.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
> On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 08:09:25 AM CDT, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx
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> Hi TOK Folks,
>
> I wanted to shared that I had a great conversation with Prof Michael
> Kazajian yesterday. He is the author of “Unified Philosophy
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.barnesandnoble.com_w_unified-2Dphilosophy-2Dmichael-2Dm-2Dkazanjian_1127855826&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=ctW0pq3e-zxpR9LMGp7JwIRm9ZCG2caqrkiAsmqe1ks&s=lPnOjxt-cGFoomNcW_n-XjeOLJiT_5E6RyGSlSTSFFU&e=>”.
> He teaches Philosophy, Ethics, and World Religion at Triton College. He
> authored  two other books, Phenomenology and Education (Rodopi, 1998) and
> Learning Values Lifelong: From Inert Ideas to Wholes (Rodopi, 2002).
>
>
>
> He authored this blog on
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blog.apaonline.org_2019_06_11_10120_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=ctW0pq3e-zxpR9LMGp7JwIRm9ZCG2caqrkiAsmqe1ks&s=nnrHZeUuSYERKDN0c-WN9JeRsm1BBR6a6F3ZlPgPZ-c&e=>Unified
> Philosophy for the American Philosophical Association that reviews its
> major argument and discusses why and how we should think of philosophy as a
> “meta-discipline” (following Mary Midgley) and how a broad view of the
> field can connect analytic and the continental traditions and afford a more
> coherent frame for the field. He has interests in metaphysics, ontology,
> epistemology and ethics. I was very heartened to see how well our views
> were aligned. As such, I am thrilled to have him join the TOK Society and
> explore more linkages between philosophy and the UTOK metapsychology.
>
>
>
> Welcome Michael!
>
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
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