Select Presentations and Publications by HEP Team
Professors and Scholars:
- Terrence Deacon
- On Human (Symbolic) Nature: How the Word Became Flesh
- Neither nature nor nurture: the semiotic basis of language universals
- The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain (1997)
- Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011)
- Teleodynamics: specifying the dynamical principles of intrinsically end-directed processes (2020; conference keynote)
- The Complexity Ratchet Paradox & the Human Future (2021; conference keynote)
- Falling Up (2021; conference keynote)
- The complexity ratchet paradox in evolution (2021; conference keynote)
- How molecules became signs (2021; conference keynote)
- How Molecules Became Signs (2021)
- Francis Heylighen
- Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to a Global Superintelligence (2015; Video presentation)
- The Global Superorganism: an evolutionary-cybernetic model of the emerging network society (2007)
- Accelerating socio-technological evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain (2008)
- Conceptions of a Global Brain: an historical review (2011)
- Michael Jacob
- Neuronal opinion, public opinion: a comparative study of neural decision making and the evolution of societal aspirations for racial equality (2020)
- “Towards neurosemiotics: Ongoing neural activity as brain music,” with Parham Pourdavood and Terrence Deacon (2021, video presentation)
- Steering Transforms the Cortical Representation of Self-Movement from Direction to Destination (2015)
- Michael Pirson
- Humanistic Management – Sucks Less and Better for your Health (2018)
- Towards a Consilience of Knowledge – Ontological Foundations for Humanistic Management (2018)
- Better Stories Needed: How Meaningful Narratives can Transform the World (2017).
- Exploring the Boundaries of Compassion Organizing (2017)
- A Humanistic Perspective for Management Theory: Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being (2019)
- Introduction: International Business and International Management in an Era of Globality (2014)
- Ellen Risgsby
- Time and the Measure of the Political Animal (2005)
- To Kill a Mockingjay: Katniss’s Corrosive Queerness in The Hunger Games Trilogy (2020)
- Metadiscursive Thinking for Teaching Methods (Forthcoming)
- Brian Thomas Swimme
- What’s Next? Planetary Mind and the Future
- The Divinization of the Cosmos (An interview with Brian Swimme on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
- The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era: A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (1994)
- The Journey of the Universe (2011)
- David Sloan Wilson
- Extending Darwin’s Revolution
- Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Everyday Life
- Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (2002)
- This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (2019)
- Marta Lenartowicz
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Boris Shoshitaishvili
- Deep time and compressed time in the Anthropocene: The new timescape and the value of cosmic storytelling (2020)
- From Anthropocene to Noosphere: The Great Acceleration (2020)
- “The Superorganism, the Infosphere, and the Noosphere” with Terrence Deacon (in progress)
- Is Our Planet Doubly Alive? (2022)
- Clément Vidal
- Distributing Cognition: from Local Brains to the Global Brain (2015)
- The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective (2014)
- Are we significant in the universe? (TEDx video)
- Is there a limit to technological progress? (TED-Ed animation)
- What is the Noosphere?
- Teilhard’s Formation of the Noosphere: an exegesis and update (2021)
- What is the Noosphere? Planetary Superorganism, Transition and Emergence (2021)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: A Visionary in Controversy (2021)
- Radical Shifts in Planetary Health, Evan Barba, Eleni Charoupia, Sally Sutherland, and Clément Vidal (2022; Academic Presentation)
- Shima Beigi
- Noospheric Consciousness (2021)
- Collective Consciousness Supported by the Web: Healthy or toxic? (2021)