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Book SynopsisWe live in an increasingly unpredictable physical and social environment. This volume aims to begin a conversation about how to foster better reasoning about new challenges through our education system, the structures of our organisations, the regulation of social-and- mass media, and the designs of buildings and urban spaces.
Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors; Introduction Anneli Jefferson, Orestis Palermos, Panos Paris and Jonathan Webber; 1. Group creativity Berys Gaut; 2. Collective responsibility should be treated as a virtue Mandi Astola; 3. Reclaiming care and privacy in the age of social media Hugh Desmond; 4. Deepfakes, Intellectual cynics, and the cultivation of digital sensibility Taylor Matthews; 5. Affective polarisation and emotional distortions on social media Alessandra Tanesini; 6. Self-regulation and political confabulation Kathleen Murphy-Hollies; 7. Cultivating curiosity in the information age Lani Watson; 8. Practical wisdom and the value of cognitive diversity Anneli Jefferson and Katrina Sifferd; 9. The need for phronesis Kristján Kristjánsson; 10. Integrity as the goal of character education Jonathan Webber; 11. Empathy and loving attention Carissa Phillips-Garrett; 12. On the importance of beauty and taste Panos Paris; 13. Relativism, fallibilism, and the need for interpretive charity Nadine Elzein; 14. Uncertainty phobia and epistemic forbearance in a pandemic Nicholas Shackel; 15. The virtue of hope in a turbulent world Cathy Mason; Index of Names.
