Purpose and Function of the University

Potter, Van R.; Baerreis, D. A.; Bryson, Reid A.; Curvin, J. W.; Johansen, Guro Gravem; McLeod, J.; Rankin, Joseph E.; Symon, K. R.

doi:10.1126/science.167.3925.1590

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“…In 1967, the University administration turned to Potter’s group asking it to address issues such as the goal of higher education, the aims of the university and its departments, and the role of students and their organisations. Potter’s group provided the answers in accordance with Potter’s ideas on knowledge and wisdom, taking into consideration also Margaret Mead’s theses 10 …”

Section: From Interdisciplinarity To Bioethicsmentioning

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Interdisciplinarity as a State of Mind: How Can Individuals and Societies Reach It?

Muzur¹

2018

European Review

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The necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to both research and education can today hardly be debated, especially when one thinks of the complexity and dynamics of changes in the human brain and behaviour related to digitalisation and informatisation. Real interdisciplinarity, however, has to be born within the individual, representing a kind of a particular state of mind. To achieve such a goal, reforms of both science and the educational system are needed, broadening the fundamentals of our knowledge. To support and elaborate this thesis, various ideas will be analysed related to one successful example of interdisciplinarity, represented, in the author’s opinion, in the history of development of bioethics.

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Section: From Interdisciplinarity To Bioethicsmentioning

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Interdisciplinarity as a State of Mind: How Can Individuals and Societies Reach It?

Muzur¹

2018

European Review

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“…Van R. Potter, writing for "The Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on the Future of Man" at the University of Wisconsin, also pointed this out in the article "Purposes of the University" (Potter et al 1970). The answer to this challenge was:…”

Section: The University's Challenge To Bridging the Two Culturesmentioning

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Global Bioethical Prevention of the Collision of Biological and Cultural Evolution on Miserable Human Survival

Troskoa¹

2015

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With the cultural myth that science can only determine the way the world "is" (facts), while humanities, social sciences, lawyers, philosophers, and theologians must determine the way the world "ought to be" (values), those in position of global-, national-, and local-political power make major decisions of the use (or non-use) of scientific knowledge and technology. As a result, the human being has created a non-scientifically based cultural environment that is affecting his ability to survive. In effect, cultural evolution is occurring more rapidly than biological evolution that can adapt to the changes brought about in the physical and psycho-social environments. In a pluralistic cultural world, where each society has generated a different view of human nature and different ethical values, the use, misuse, or non-use of scientific and technological advances are derived from these unscientific views of human nature. Since all life depends on limiting interacting environmental and ecological factors, it is imperative that scientific information be used to govern how to minimize irreversible effects on life-sustaining ecological factors, but also scientific information bearing on understanding human nature ought to be integrated into a "global bioethics". While ethical values cannot be directly derived from scientific factors, it is also true that human values or our "ought" cannot be maintained in ignorance or defiance of the facts or the "is".

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Mycological relevance in the nineteen seventies

Emerson

1973

Transactions of the British Mycological Society

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Purpose and Function of the University

Cited by 14 publications

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Interdisciplinarity as a State of Mind: How Can Individuals and Societies Reach It?

Interdisciplinarity as a State of Mind: How Can Individuals and Societies Reach It?

Global Bioethical Prevention of the Collision of Biological and Cultural Evolution on Miserable Human Survival

Mycological relevance in the nineteen seventies

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