Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...
Last month I was struck reading John Burn-Murdoch's regular opinion piece 'Data Points' in the FTWeekend. This one 'What's really going on with mental health around the world?' concerned a report: Henking, C. and Baumberg Geiger, B. (2026), ' Population mental health in England, 2003–2022: Teasing apart psychological distress, mental illness and activity limitations '. ESRC Centre for Society and…
'The Slave Trade came through the cramped doorway of the slave ship, leaving a wake like that of crawling desert caravans. It might be drawn like this: African countries to the East; the lands of America to the West. This creature is in the image of a fibril. African languages became deterritorialized, thus contributing to creolization in the West. This is the most completely known confrontation…
This prompt from yesterday is far from new. There are outlines for papers on W2tQ. Seriously though, what would a book outline look like - now? The introduction is probably already written, it just needs to be pulled-together. But, in truth it (desperately) needs a new perspective. The question of how to update the explanation - short of running a workshop? The model's original purposes 1-4 are a…
BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BCS-SGAI) There are two one-day SGAI events arranged for September, both at the British Computer Society London office (near Moorgate underground station). Trustworthiness and Safety in Generative AI - Friday September 11th 2026 https://www.bcs-sgai.org/genai2026/ Real AI 2026 - Friday September 25th 2026 https://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2026/ There…
The second R&E piece 'spoke' immediately of distance, peoples - their societies, culture, heritage and communities, plus place and connection to land, landscape, water, fauna, flora and sky. individual | INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL | group Spirit Sense of Belonging PLACE PEOPLE family Place and Planet are lost here. Look at…
I do remember reading about the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 in Resurgence & Ecology, Russell Warfield, Acting for the future. Issue 322. 2020. pp.20-24 [with another gem to follow]. Belatedly, here it is: The Well-being of Future Generations Act There are 7 connected well-being goals for Wales. They are: A prosperous Wales A resilient Wales A healthier Wales A more equal…
Five years after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the de facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees affecting Afghan women and girls and stripping them of their rights, freedoms, and dignity. No other country has dismantled the rights of half its population through law, policy, and practice to the same extent. At the beginning of this year, the Taliban issued a decree effectively…
'Sometimes it can take an old model, to build a new one, that makes the existing model obsolete.' To borrow from Buckminster Fuller . Resurgence & Ecologist, Sept/Oct 2020, Issue 322, p.33.
Submission Deadline: Thursday, 31 December 2026 Contemporary bioethics has developed sophisticated tools for ethical decision-making. Yet it often operates within assumptions that reduce life to physiological viability. Ethical questions are frequently treated as matters of procedure and consent. Meanwhile, patients and clinicians face questions that exceed these frameworks. What makes a life…
individual | INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL | group Between the new and full moon the terminator - the line demarcating what is lit from what is dark changes all the time. This is imperceptible with the naked eye. A telescope at low magnification reveals the moon in all its glory. At a higher power with manual control you have…
In addition to Kantian Desert (this p.m.) it is proving helpful to join a reading group on Philosophical Counselling . Being able to combine clinical and therapy experience* with philosophy is a welcome and rather overdue development. The reading for tomorrow (online for me I hope) is: Taylor J.S. (2002) The Central Value of Philosophical Counseling . International Journal of Philosophical…
Dear all, The KantianDESERT project 's reading group will return on Tuesday 11th August, from 12-1:30 UK time. We will be starting to read Joseph de la Torre Dwyer's 2020 book ' Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality '. The first session will focus on the Introduction and chapter 2. The reading group will take place both in-person in Liverpool, and online via Teams. All are welcome. Please email:…
