Culture is “the rational done in an irrational way”, “a golden cage” we have to escape from to find our freedom again… This video gives some food for thought! GOLEM from GOLEM on Vimeo. I don't agree with the general message though. I think culture is the only way we have to (re)connect with our […]
Category: adventures in research
Why Men Don’t Read Maps Better Than Women
A recent study showed that there is no adaptive reason why males are (slightly) better at spatial orientation than females. The cause for this feature could be the amount of testosterone in one’s body. I like this report for two reasons: (a) It brings back memories of vivid discussions with my wife while driving through […]
David Attenborough: most of the world’s population are out of touch with the natural world – Telegraph
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution The veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has said he believes most people don’t come into contact with wildlife. Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: Maybe this is indeed one of the main challenge human culture(s) face today. While culture once enabled us to survive within our natural environment, it now seems to […]
Quote on Pluralism
“(…) a pluralistic cultural situation makes a dogmatic attitude irrational.” Mikael Stenmark, in How to Relate Science and Religion, p. 109. Great quote!
Darwin’s iPhone: The Politics and Rhetoric of Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, and Online Education
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution In a recent speech, John Tooby, one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, compared the human brain to an iPhone full of different apps. (Huffingtonpost! Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: I’m not sure what to think of this article. It starts of with some critical remarks on evolutionary psychology and cognitive […]
Science Made Easy, and a Challenge for Theologians
This is an excellent idea: take a complex scientific concept and break it down using only the 1000 most common words in English. Read more on Mental Floss, see the Tumblr Blog where all efforts get their place in the virtual library. Most examples are from science (hence the title of the blog, of course). […]
LEST IX
My Faculty organizes a conference on the Liturgy on 23-26 October 2013: LEST IX. They’ve put together quite a program, as you can see! CFP deadline 02/15, so act fast…
On the Theological Importance of the Science-Religion Debate
– Tom Uytterhoeven – It’s a strange thing to do theology: your business is to make as intelligible as possible what people, who share the same religion as you do, actually believe when they express their faith in spoken or written words, rituals, visual arts or any other form of culture. This means a theologian […]
On the alienation of/by Thomas Aquinas
– Tom Uytterhoeven – Today we discussed two fragments of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa in the doctoral seminar (on theological anthropology and ethics; main theme: ‘Love’) I’m attending. We had prof. Andrea Robiglio as guest-lecturer. In this post I first give the question I asked about these texts, followed by the answer prof. Robiglio gave. Here’s […]
Weekly Gardening 