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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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
############################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”. 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 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___________________________________________
Gregg Henriques, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Graduate Psychology
216 Johnston Hall
MSC 7401
James Madison University
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