1st Edition
Big Picture Perspectives on Planetary Flourishing Metatheory for the Anthropocene Volume 1
Introduction: From Metatheory to Metapraxis for Planetary Flourishing
Nicholas Hedlund and Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
Part 1 Society and Economics
1 The Quintuple Crisis: How Metatheory Contributes to Social Theory
Hans Despain
2 Healthy versus Pathological Political-Economic Discourse and Policy: An Integral Political-Economic Treatment
Kevin Bowman
3 Sustaining Spirit across Complexities of International Development in Relation to Indigenous Peoples
Neil Hockey
Part 2 Social Psychology
4 Applying Bhaskar’s ‘Four Moments of Dialectic’ to Reshaping Cognitive Development as a Social Practice Using Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework
Otto Laske
5 On Realizing the Possibilities of Emancipatory Metatheory: Beyond the Cognitive Maturity Fallacy, Toward an Education Revolution
Zachary Stein
Part 3 Education
6 Metatheory: The Ontological Turn in Mathematics Education Research
Iskra Nunez
7 Coalescing and Potentializing Integrative Higher Education: Complex Thought, Critical Realism, Integral Theory, and a Meta-Matrix
Gary Hampson and Matthew Rich-Tolsma
8 Getting Theory into Public Culture: Collaborations and Interventions Where Metatheorists Meet
Zachary Stein and Hans Despain
After Words: The Spirit of Evolution and Envelopment
Frédéric Vandenberghe
Biography
Nicholas Hedlund is a visionary philosopher working at the nexus of philosophy of science, worldviews, and socioecological transformation. He obtained his PhD in philosophy and social sciences from University College London, studying under the philosopher Roy Bhaskar. Nicholas also holds a master’s degree in philosophy and religion, as well as one in psychology. He is director of the Eudaimonia Institute, an emerging social innovations lab for planetary flourishing. Nicholas was an exchange scholar at Yale University, executive director of the Integral Research Center, and organizer of the CR-IT symposia series. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor of Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century: Critical Realism and Integral Theory in Dialogue (Routledge, 2016). Nicholas has received several academic honors including the Jacob Van Ek Scholar Award, the Honors Graduating Senior Scholarship Award, Best Paper Award at the Integral Theory Conference, and the Yale–UCL Bursary Award. He currently teaches at the California Institute of Human Science.
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is Dean of Integral Education at the California Institute of Human Science. In 2011 he founded the MetaIntegral Foundation, a social impact network that supports change leaders around the world in applying integrative principles to projects and organizations. In 2018 he founded the Exo Studies Institute through which he is pioneering an integral approach to anomalous phenomena including UFOs/ETs. Sean combines a strong academic background in the philosophy of science and integrative metatheories with an open-hearted exploration of the mystery and multi-layered nature of reality. He has published and edited numerous articles, chapters, and books. He is the co-editor of both Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2016) and Dancing with Sophia: Integral Philosophy on the Verge (2019).
