Ep 56 | UTOKing with Scott Jordan | Toward a Coherent Vision of Nature and Meaning

In Episode 56, Gregg welcomes Scott Jordan. Scott is currently the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois where he is also Director of the Institute for Prospective Cognition. In this episode, he recounts his theoretical work in Wild Systems Theory and how it moves scientific psychology toward an integrated framework that conceptualizes organisms as embodiments of the phylogenetic, cultural, social, and developmental contexts from they emerged and in which they sustain themselves. He and Gregg sync this up with UTOK’s vision and explore what a coherentist approach to nature, consciousness, and meaning looks like in the 21st Century.

 

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Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment by Roy Tseng: https://www.amazon.com/Sceptical-Idealist-Michael-Oakeshott-Enlightenment/dp/0907845223

Consilience by E. O. Wilson: https://www.amazon.com/Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-Osborne-Wilson/dp/067976867X

Princess Mononoke (written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/

Dark Loops Production YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5ddGv-AuqOj7iwdBxt_eQ

 

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Dark Loops Productions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5ddGv-AuqOj7iwdBxt_eQ

Scott’s University Homepage: https://about.illinoisstate.edu/jsjorda/

 

- - - ℹ️ Find out more about Gregg Henriques ℹ️ - - -

Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx