Category: School
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USP 530 – Session 5
This session was canceled February 24th Session Five: Alternative Business, Housing, and Food Ownership Models and Structures I Alternative Business Ownership Structures: Worker Owned Cooperative Businesses Worker-owned cooperatives are businesses that are owned and managed by their workers. Although there are variations, typically, each worker owns a share and all shares are owned by…
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Session 4
February 17th Session Four: Reducing Social and Racial Inequality: Basic Income, Universal Health Care, New Deal Type Stimulus Package for Job Creation, Affordable Housing, Eliminating Student Debt, Reparations, The People’s Budget This session will focus on the increasing social inequality in the United States and its consequences. We will be guided by the following questions: Notes…
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Prompt: Is psychology a real science?
Psychology can not be a “real science” until it acknowledges the simple truth that it is not making objective, deductive claims. In reality it is making inductive claims based on limited data. This distinction is vital. Throughout history psychologists have reached countless absurd conclusions which have done enormous damage precisely because they failed to adequately…
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Session 3
Session Three: Healthy Cities Movement Framework and Information for Assignment #1 Due March 3, 2021 This session will focus on the “healthy cities movement”, a long-term international development initiative sponsored by the World Health Organization that places health high on the agenda of decision makers and promotes comprehensive local strategies for health protection and sustainable…
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Session 2
Session Two: Principles, Values, and the Future of Cities February 3rd Review What makes a good city Thomas Affordable housing Diverse forms of travel Actively democratic Environmental accountability Mariegail Equitable distribution of services and goods like healthcare and housing Sustainability Walkability Everyone’s basic needs are met Tammy Accessible library system Accessible public transit Affordable housing…
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Session 2
Review Article Objections raised by author Computers are merely “serial” but brains are “parallel.” Computers are “digital,” but brains are “analog.” Computers cannot generate emotions, but brains do not generate emotions. Definitions Parallel vs serial Digital vs analog Cognitive science perceived gap in research areas: no science of cognition no systematic exploration of central questions…
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Session 1
January 27th Session One: Acknowledgement of Ohlone Territory Introduction to the Course / Current and Future Concerns, Challenges, and Hopes for Urban Futures Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055ilIiN4&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour Part One: Introductions, review syllabus, grading, and Zoom policies. Cities are planned by urban planners city government state government national government developers – non-profit/ for profit social movements…
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PHIL 621 – Session 1
Housekeeping Professor likes to use green checkmark feature in the participants list of zoom Writing Assignment 1 Do you accept the proposition that your brain is a computer? Why or why not? There are many computational processes happening in the brain, but brains are not deterministic machines. There is a great deal of probability, fuzzy…
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Your Actions Stem Inexorably From Your Principles
Your actions stem inexorably from your principles. “Even if you don’t believe, you cannot travel in any other way than the road your senses show you. And you must walk that road to the end.” -American Gods I see a common theme in popular discourse where people look at a given situation and think, “Oh…
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Wrangling Metaphenomena
This semester, a professor in one of my classes made the claim that almost no person or organization is aware or its core principles. Maybe they have some vague nonsense mission statement or political identity that could be used to argue literally anything, and that’s basically the point. They don’t have a set of claims…