Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity

Alicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College and the author of Dynamics in Action, a text that many consider to have laid the foundation for how we think about complexity in our society. So Alicia is a philosopher for this moment in human history.

Show Notes:

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (03:31)Live the questionsDuino ElegiesUser Friendly by Cliff Kuang (11:50)Herbert Simon and the importance of information diet (12:50)The Self-Organizing Universe by Erich Jantsch (15:00)Dave Snowden Cynefin Framework (20:00)Dave on OriginsAristotelian four causes (22:30)Emergence (27:40)Network thinking (28:20)Barabási Albert-LászlóSteven StrogatzMereology (31:00)Order Out of Chaos by Prigogine, Stengers, and Toffler (32:15)Complicated vs complex (38:00)John Holland "fail safe and safe fail" (40:00)Graceful Extensibilityby David Woods (41:20)Vector Analytica (43:20)Healthy relationality (54:00)Trust (59:15)Danielle Allen (01:01:00)Flourishing Commons newsletter (01:02:00)Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Lightning round (01:03:20)Book: Order Out of ChaosPassion: reading broadlyHeart sing: how design creates context that also creates affordancesThe Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman User Friendly by Cliff KuangScrewed up: attention to ideas over people-orientated application of those ideasFind Alicia online:Website'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Alicia’s playlist