{"id":6621,"date":"2016-03-29T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T07:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2016-03-29T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T07:28:03","slug":"notes-from-a-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/03\/29\/notes-from-a-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from a presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I posted the text of my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/03\/21\/education-21\/\">talk<\/a> to the <em>Education 21<\/em> seminar in Z\u00fcrich. \u00a0Here are a couple of notes that I might have added to the post. \u00a0The first is about the Enlightenment (or enlightenments?); the second about muddling through.<\/p>\n<p><strong> 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Anyone wanting more detail on enlightenment(s) could do much worse than read AC Grayling's new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/the-age-of-genius-9781408843291\/\">book<\/a>:\u00a0<em>The Age of Genius: the seventeenth century and the making of the modern mind\u00a0<\/em>[Bloomsbury]. \u00a0But if you do, you might also have a look at Malcolm Gaskill's review in a\u00a0Weekend FT for a critical appreciation and a more nuanced historical perspective. \u00a0This is how it ends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<em>This is an entertaining, erudite book, written with verve and a steely self-confidence. \u00a0It is, however, tendentious, and less free-thinking than its 17th-century subjects. \u00a0Their confidence was based not on certainty \u2013 that was the old dogma \u2013 but rather on the inspired hope that through hypothesis and observation, experiment and debate, human beings might understand the mysteries of God's universe<\/em>.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0<\/strong>As for muddling through, that most human of social strategies, do read\u00a0<em>Still Muddling, Not Yet Through<\/em> by Charles Lindblom, published\u00a0in 1979 in\u00a0<em>Public Administration Review<\/em>\u00a039[6]. \u00a0You can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingassistant.com\/uploads\/2\/budgeting\/muddlingthrough.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I posted the text of my talk to the Education 21 seminar in Z\u00fcrich. \u00a0Here are a couple of notes that I might have added to the post. \u00a0The first is about the Enlightenment (or enlightenments?); the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}