WIP summary of Anatol Rapoport's 1950 book on Semantic Orientation, based on Alfred Korzybski's general semantics work, divided into human communication, orientation and values
Science and the Goals of Man
This is for revision for my Advanced Higher RMPS class at school. It deals with the ethics surrounding embryo research and abortion, and the opinions of different philosophers and religions.
Embryo Research and Abortion
UNfolding story book summary based on Tech St Petersburg blog entry , Rowley 2015 and Jensen 1978 books/ translations and recent U of Hull CSS seminar june 2021 (links via twitter @OrsanS)
Bogdanov Philosophy of Living Experience
This is for my RMPS revision at school. It is all the information we are given about the Cosmological Argument and the philosophers and religions that agree or disagree.
Cosmological Argument
Launchpad about reorganisation based on Bogdanov's Tektology general theory of organization, perceptual control theory, personal history and current concerns, linked to the modern (or historical) organization of biology and political economy.
Personalised Reorganization Bogdanov Biology and Political Economy
Summary mostly of Cheryl Misak's 2004
Book Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth
See also broader history of Pragmatism insight, mostly from Cheryl Misak's other works and reviews
Peirce Truth and the End of Inquiry
The Idea of the world (© Bernardo Kastrup 2019)
Overview of Evaluation Approaches from Pawson and Tilley's Book comparing Realist, Constructivist, Experimental and Pragmatic Evaluation Approaches. Combined with Van de Ven's Alternative Philosophies of Science in his Engaged Scholarship book. See also Burrell and Morgan's research paradigms video
Realistic and Other Evaluation Methods
Book summary of Third millennium thinking: creating sense in a world of nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun see website
My Book Summary... Thinking-- making sense in a world of nonsense
Brief history epistemology
epistemology
A launchpad to tie together some ideas about Reality. See wikipedia
Reality
Summary of the History of Pragmatism mostly based on Cheryl Misak's Books and reviews See also Insight Peircean Truth and the end of Inquiry
Pragmatism
WIP Summary of Michael Sonenscher's 2023 book: After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought
My After Kant Book Summary
Summary of the History of Pragmatism mostly based on Cheryl Misak's Books insight integrated with Cornelis de Waal's Introducing Pragmatism Peirce insight See also Insight Misak Peircean Truth and the end of Inquiry
History of Pragmatism
Summary on Charles Sanders Peirce's ideas and influences on Pragmatism based on Ch 1 to 6 of Cornelis de Waal's 2021 book Introducing Pragmatism
Introducing Pragmatism CS Peirce
WIP Adding Pragmatism, Critical Realism and Category Theory to WIlliam Powers' Perceptual Control Theory to explain ways of thinking, with similarities to structure agency theory. Based on help from Gene Bellinger's conversations with Gemini Nov2025, named Unified Cybernetic Realist Model
Philosophies of Science and Cognition
