Forms of Creativity – A Perspective from Higher Education
The text below is the public talk (lightly edited) which I gave at the Genoa Festival of Science in 2016. 20 minute read The title I was...
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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG
Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity, and some related things like Expertise and Future of Work
Welcome to my new blog. You can read more about me in the About tab, top left. I'm looking forward to getting back to 'writing and thinking out loud' about Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity and other things that interest me. You can talk to me either here or on my linked Twitter feed.
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General expertise – the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery
The work of Fernand Gobet and Herbert Simon seems to indicate that expertise is ‘domain specific’. That is, you can only learn to be an...
Dreams and happiness
My friend Peter Gibson told me that if you are happy you are not supposed to want to sleep too much: you want to be awake to enjoy as...
Economist bashing – enough already?
I am one of those who has enjoyed taking a pop at many academic economists recently. Informally and to friends, I have compared academic...
Thoughts on the work of J M Greer: The Wealth of Nature
Reading The Wealth of Nature by J M Greer and enjoying it very much. The chapter called The Metaphysics of Money is particularly...
Resisting expertise
As I read more on interdisciplinarity, learn more about it through my daily work, talk more to colleagues who do fascinating...
Contradictions and language
The experience of life is beset with contradiction, even paradoxes. To say this is banal yet it touches the deepest parts of human...
Social science and value judgements
I had a nice conversation with one of my favourite philosophers at UCL recently, a man I respect greatly. His main research area has been...
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