Welcome to the Defining Wisdom Research Network
The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago has launched a $2 million research
program on the nature and benefits of wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy
of the most rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom
is currently overlooked as a topic for serious scholarly and scientific investigation
in many fields. Yet it is difficult to imagine a subject more central to the human
enterprise and whose exploration holds greater promise in shedding light and opening
up creative possibilities for human flourishing.
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The wisdom of engineers
Philosophical questions about the external world and our knowledge of it are almost exclusively raised from the armchair.
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What is context?
This essay is an attempt to explore the ontology of context by elucidating its uses in the production of new knowledges out of the old.
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Calculating Consumer Happiness at Any Price
For a couple of decades now, social psychologists
and behavioral economists have been amusing themselves manipulating
consumers into doing odd things...
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Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are?
The authors explore how personality differences relate to moral intuitions.
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