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40Buying local organic food: a pathway to transformative learning (review)Agriculture and Human Values 27 (4): 401-413. 2010.Food is a powerful symbol in the struggle to transition to a more sustainable pathway since the food choices citizens make have deep environmental and social impacts within their communities and around the world. Using transformative learning theory, this research explored the learning that took place among individual adults who consumed goods directly from local organic producers, and how this behavior affected their worldview. Learning was classified as instrumental, communicative, or transfor…Read more
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7The Need for the Dualist View to Combat Extremism How the Dualist View Can Combat ExtremisJournal of Philosophical Investigations 9 (17): 23-52. 2015.his paper argues that we will never get rid of the extremist mentality unless the dualist view prevails and is taught as part of the educational system. The dualist view takes account of both sides of an argument whereas the extremist view promotes one side unequivocally without considering the merits of the opposing view. The merits of the dualist view can be taught in schools so that everyone learns to recognise that mentality when it is evident not only in other people’s behaviour but also in…Read more
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6The Need to Complete the Secularization of SocietyEssays in the Philosophy of Humanism 18 (2): 25-34. 2010.It is argued here that our future depends on our completing the secularization of society. This means addressing the problem of authoritarian religions that suppress freedom of belief and opinion. We must promote a post-religious humanism to deal with this problem. This is no more than reviving the humanist consensus which all the major religions acknowledged at least till the 1970s. Until then a comparative religion movement sought to construct a world religion but its endeavours have come to n…Read more
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |