1st Edition
Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice Developing Systems Thinking through Literary Study
Introduction
Chapter One: Systems Thinking as the Core of Social Wisdom
Chapter Two: How to Educate for Wisdom: Developing Mental Models of Causality
Chapter Three: Developing Mental Models of Causality by Reading Literature
Chapter Four: Principles of a Wisdom-Cultivating Literary Pedagogy
Chapter Five: Faulty Causal Analysis and Its Harmful Consequences
Chapter Six: Causal Analysis I: Proximal, Distal, and Root Causes of Problems
Chapter Seven: Causal Analysis II: System Openness and Dynamism
Chapter Eight: Causal Analysis III: Causal Loops
Chapter Nine: Faulty Prospection and its Harmful Consequences
Chapter Ten: Developing Adequate Prospection
Chapter Eleven: Social Cognition I: Situational Causes of Behavior and Life Outcomes
Chapter Twelve: Social Cognition II: Environmental Causes of Character
Chapter Thirteen: Social Cognition III: Human Nature as a Root Cause of Character
Chapter Fourteen: Metacognition: Developing an Accurate Mental Model of Oneself
Biography
Mark Bracher is Professor of English and Director of the Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH) at Kent State University, USA. He has published widely on literary study as a means of promoting personal well-being and social justice.
