Resilience, complexity and post-liberalism

Social Democracy, Complexity and Education: sociological perspectives from classical liberalism

In the second half of the nineteenth century, in the period after John Stuart Mill, and into and including the first third of the twentieth century, a group of philosophers, sociologists, economists and journalists, systematically adapted classical liberal arguments to make them relevant to the appalling social conditions generated by the development of capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteen...

Post disaster resilience

Traumatic events like September 11 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (H-KR) have heightened national awareness on the effects that such events can have on communities and specific populations. These disasters not only had major effects on those directly impacted by the hurricane, but also on first responders and the subsequent teams of personnel who provided aid to residents and evacuees. Student...

Good Governance : Complexity , Institutions , and Resilience

The Evolution of Cultural Resilience and Complexity

The study of memetics has thus far mostly applied a reductionist view of genetics to describe the pathogenic infectivity and transmission dynamics of ideas/memes. In this position paper, we take a first look at some of the distinctive attributes of cultural evolution through the lens of complexity science and theoretical biology. The article comments briefly on connections between memetics and ...

Pluralism, Relativism, and Liberalism

One major focus of recent value‐pluralist literature has been the question of what normative consequences follow from pluralism. This essay critically examines three arguments that attempt to show that either liberalism or a bounded modus vivendi is the state of affairs that pluralism makes morally preferable. All three arguments are shown to encounter the same fundamental problem—once we have ...