Podcasts about conceptual foundations

In our latest Advances in Sim collaborative episode, we explore how translational simulation has evolved in the last 6 years.  Ben interviews the authors of “Translational simulation revisited: an evolving conceptual model for the contribution of simulation to healthcare quality and safety”, Prof Gabe Reedy and our own Prof Victoria Brazil in order to explore their new paper.  Together we discuss how the concepts of Purpose, Process and Conceptual Foundations underpin the strategic design and delivery of projects using translational sim. 

Kristin Bowers, M.A., CCC-SLP is a certified and licensed Speech Language Pathologist with experience in a variety of settings with difference disorders and age groups. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competency issued by the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and holds a Level II Teaching Certification issued by the PA Department of Education.  Kristin earned both her B.A. in Communication Science and Disorders and her Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a certificate in the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. She has worked in Pittsburgh Public Schools Early Intervention program, providing speech and language therapy to the 3-5 age group. In addition to serving children with articulation, phonological, fluency and language disorders in this position, Kristin worked within the program's autism support and multiple disabilities classrooms. Currently, Kristin works for a local Intermediate Unit providing services to school-age children in the Pittsburgh area.  In addition to her work with children in the Pittsburgh area, Kristin has traveled extensively utilizing her knowledge of speech, language, and teaching. In 2010 she taught English to children in Tanzania, followed by a month in India teaching English to adult Tibetan refugees. In 2012, she worked on a team with the Bosnia Autism Project, where she traveled to Sarajevo to help provide training and skills to professionals working with children with autism, as well as their families. Kristin is committed to providing the best services for each client and is excited about being able to provide private therapy to further meet the needs of children and adults in Pittsburgh. In order to do this, she is regularly involved in trainings and continuing education. She also develops many of her own materials, customized for the goals and needs of her students and clients. Kristin's links: kiwispeech.com/slpbigkidsto get the Fall Freebie https://bit.ly/3DCx3o3 for the Articulation Logic Problems https://bit.ly/3gLqoPk for the Secret Code Boom Cards https://www.kiwispeech.com/blog/dont-schedule-iep-meetings-in-the-mornings for the blog post on productivity.   And the book was When, by Daniel Pink (also mentioned in the blog post).   Kim's YouTube resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b--Ndkp9_40   You listen to this and all episodes of the podcast at: www.3cdigitalmedianetwork.com/telepractice-today-podcast  

Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Theresa Ann Dickerson. Theresa is a research fellow studying health disparities, a recently published writer in the American Journal of Public Health, and the founder of a social impact initiative called Project Girl Undefined: Empowering Girls Through Education. Though native to Fayetteville, NC, Theresa made her way to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to attend the University of Pittsburgh on an academic scholarship. In college, Theresa studied English Writing, Spanish, and the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine.  Theresa recently graduated with a Master of Science in Medical Physiology from  Case Western Reserve University. She is currently leading a team of students researching the impacts of social determinants of health on the success of cardiovascular surgery as well as developing a trauma-informed hospital based music education program with a team of medical and doctoral students for pediatric trauma patients in Cleveland, Ohio.  Theresa is passionate about improving health care through narrative medicine, research in health disparities, and public health policy and advocacy. She is currently applying to medical school. Though dedicated to her school work, Theresa always finds time to pour into her community by volunteering with hospice patients and mentoring young girls and women.   Social Media: TeachHER Podcast (Instagram) The Innocent Brown Girl Project (Instagram) The Innocent Brown Girl Project (Website) Guest Social Media Info: Theresa Dickerson (Instagram) Project Girl Undefined (Instagram) Websites Mentioned: Project Girl Undefined      

Heute reden wir über Veränderungsprozesse innerhalb von ergotherapeutischen Einrichtungen/Kliniken/Praxen. Diesmal haben wir keinen Gast, sondern Robert wird interviewt und gibt Einblicke in die Veränderungsprozesse seiner vergangenen Arbeit. Dabei geht es um die Handhabung mit anderen Berufsgruppen, der zeitliche und finanzielle Faktor. Robert hatte mit dem ET Team einer neurologischen Klinik die Abteilung zur betätigungsorientierten Ergotherapie umgestaltet. Mit Hilfe von Ellen Romein, wurden Prozesse angestoßen und Inhalte langfristig verändert. Bücher: Enabling Occupation II: Advancing an occupational therapy; Vision for health, well-being & justice through occupation ISBN: 978-1-895437-89-8 OTIPM Occupational Therapy Interventions Process Model (Übersetzung von B.Dehnhardt) ISBN: 978-3-8248-1179-3 Conceptual Foundations of Occupational Therapy Practice ISBN: 978-0-803-62070-4 Klientenzentrierte Ergotherapie ISBN: 3-13-129321-7 Fortbildungen: http://innovative-ergotherapie.de/ http://www.klientenzentrierte-ergotherapie.com/ http://www.vision-ergotherapie.de Wir wünschen euch ganz viel Spaß mit dieser Folge und freuen uns auf Feedback! Sabrina & Robert Wir freuen uns sehr über Spenden unter: https://www.performance-skills.de/spenden Ihr möchtet euch auch gerne mal mit uns unterhalten? Schreibt uns eine Email (info@performance-skills.de) oder besucht unsere Facebook-Seite und unsere Facebook-Gruppe. Wir sind auch vertreten bei: Spotify und Itunes Bis zur nächsten Folge

« Homo Fabulus, pourquoi tu utilises parfois du langage finaliste dans tes vidéos ? ». Aujourd'hui je vous dis pourquoi ! Mes experts, Pierrick Bourrat : https://pierrickbourrat.com/ Et Jean-Baptiste André : http://jb.homepage.free.fr/ 00:00 Introduction 00:58 Le finalisme classique 07:14 Le finalisme de la sélection naturelle 10:20 Le finalisme des individus 14:11 Le finalisme des adaptations Ce n'est que grâce à votre soutien que je peux affecter mes gènes à la production de vidéos ! Si vous aimez leur travail et souhaitez qu'il continue, faites augmenter ma fitness sur uTip ou Tipeee : https://utip.io/homofabulus https://tipeee.com/homofabulus/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/H0moFabulus/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/homofabulus pour les infos strictement liées à la chaîne et https://twitter.com/stdebove pour mon compte perso alimenté plus régulièrement Insta : https://www.instagram.com/stephanedebove/ Références : 1. Plato. Timaeus and Critias (ed Johansen, T. K.)trans. by Lee, D. (). 2. Paley, W. Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature Sixth. isbn: 978-1-108-00355-1 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1802). 3. Ariew, A. in The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (eds Hull, D. L. & Ruse, M.) (Cambridge University Press, 2007). 4. Williams, G. C. Adaptation and Natural Selection Reprint edition. English. isbn: 978-0- 691-02615-2 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1966). 5. Okasha, S. Agents and Goals in Evolution isbn: 978-0-19-881508-2 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, July 2018). 6. Darwin. L'origine Des Espèces (1859). 7. Dennett, D. C. The Intentional Stance (1989). 8. Rice, S. H. Evolutionary Theory: Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations (2004). 9. Mayr, E. Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (1988). 10. Monod, J. Le Hasard et La Necessite - Essai Sur La Philosophie Naturelle de La Biologie Moderne (1970). 11. Pittendrigh, C. in Behavior and Evolution (1958). 12. Grafen, A. Optimization of Inclusive Fitness. en. Journal of Theoretical Biology 238, 541–563. issn: 0022-5193 (Feb. 2006). 13. Lehmann, L. & Rousset, F. When Do Individuals Maximize Their Inclusive Fitness? The American Naturalist 195, 717–732. issn: 0003-0147 (2020). 14. Maynard-Smith, J. Evolution and the Theory of Games (1982). 15. Millikan, R. G. In Defense of Proper Functions. Philosophy of Science 56, 288–302. issn: 0031-8248 (1989). 16. Lecointre, G. Le Hasard Dans l'évolution de La Vie Apr. 2020. 17. Grafen, A. The Formal Darwinism Project in Outline. en. Biology and Philosophy, 1–20 (2014/??/??).

This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Colleen Murphy. Colleen Murphy is a Professor in the College of Law with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which received the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010); as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters. Today, we will discuss the work of Lon Fuller and his book ‘The morality of Law’.

Colleen Murphy is a Professor in the College of Law with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. Previously she was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and a Visiting Professor at the 4.TU Centre for Ethics in the Netherlands. She works on topics in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law, with a particular focus on transitional justice and the ethical dimensions of risk. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which received the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010); as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Science and Engineering Ethics. Professor Murphy is a past member of the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) Committee on the Status of Women and current member of the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Murphy's talk - 'On Principled Compromises ' - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Colleen Murphy's new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states. There are many historical instances of nations whose citizens take action to change the nature of their regime from one of authoritarianism to democracy. Whether from France in the 1790s to Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, the challenges facing new leaders to look to the future while accounting for the past can be daunting. Murphy argues that transitions need some degree of justice in order to be successful and she seeks to identify the key elements of just transitions. Murphy notes that a just result can take different forms, because of differences in culture, traditions, and the nature of the old regime. She further notes that transitional justice is not as clear and definitive as more familiar forms of justice, such as the retributive justice of the criminal law or the corrective justice of tort law. Instead, transitional justice involves degrees of accountability for wrongdoers and degrees of compensation and recognition for victims. The tools of transitional justice can include amnesties, criminal trials, memorials, truth and reconciliation commissions or reparations. Accordingly, not everyone in the society will be satisfied with the punishment, if any, meted out to perpetrators and the recognition given to victims may seem incomplete or insufficient. Nevertheless, in order to achieve a society-wide transition to a morally improved regime, traditional notions of justice may remain unsatisfied or incomplete.

Colleen Murphy’s new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states. There are many historical instances of nations whose citizens take action to change the nature of their regime from one of authoritarianism to democracy. Whether from France in the 1790s to Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, the challenges facing new leaders to look to the future while accounting for the past can be daunting. Murphy argues that transitions need some degree of justice in order to be successful and she seeks to identify the key elements of just transitions. Murphy notes that a just result can take different forms, because of differences in culture, traditions, and the nature of the old regime. She further notes that transitional justice is not as clear and definitive as more familiar forms of justice, such as the retributive justice of the criminal law or the corrective justice of tort law. Instead, transitional justice involves degrees of accountability for wrongdoers and degrees of compensation and recognition for victims. The tools of transitional justice can include amnesties, criminal trials, memorials, truth and reconciliation commissions or reparations. Accordingly, not everyone in the society will be satisfied with the punishment, if any, meted out to perpetrators and the recognition given to victims may seem incomplete or insufficient. Nevertheless, in order to achieve a society-wide transition to a morally improved regime, traditional notions of justice may remain unsatisfied or incomplete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colleen Murphy’s new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states. There are many historical instances of nations whose citizens take action to change the nature of their regime from one of authoritarianism to democracy. Whether from France in the 1790s to Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, the challenges facing new leaders to look to the future while accounting for the past can be daunting. Murphy argues that transitions need some degree of justice in order to be successful and she seeks to identify the key elements of just transitions. Murphy notes that a just result can take different forms, because of differences in culture, traditions, and the nature of the old regime. She further notes that transitional justice is not as clear and definitive as more familiar forms of justice, such as the retributive justice of the criminal law or the corrective justice of tort law. Instead, transitional justice involves degrees of accountability for wrongdoers and degrees of compensation and recognition for victims. The tools of transitional justice can include amnesties, criminal trials, memorials, truth and reconciliation commissions or reparations. Accordingly, not everyone in the society will be satisfied with the punishment, if any, meted out to perpetrators and the recognition given to victims may seem incomplete or insufficient. Nevertheless, in order to achieve a society-wide transition to a morally improved regime, traditional notions of justice may remain unsatisfied or incomplete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colleen Murphy’s new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states. There are many historical instances of nations whose citizens take action to change the nature of their regime from one of authoritarianism to democracy. Whether from France in the 1790s to Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, the challenges facing new leaders to look to the future while accounting for the past can be daunting. Murphy argues that transitions need some degree of justice in order to be successful and she seeks to identify the key elements of just transitions. Murphy notes that a just result can take different forms, because of differences in culture, traditions, and the nature of the old regime. She further notes that transitional justice is not as clear and definitive as more familiar forms of justice, such as the retributive justice of the criminal law or the corrective justice of tort law. Instead, transitional justice involves degrees of accountability for wrongdoers and degrees of compensation and recognition for victims. The tools of transitional justice can include amnesties, criminal trials, memorials, truth and reconciliation commissions or reparations. Accordingly, not everyone in the society will be satisfied with the punishment, if any, meted out to perpetrators and the recognition given to victims may seem incomplete or insufficient. Nevertheless, in order to achieve a society-wide transition to a morally improved regime, traditional notions of justice may remain unsatisfied or incomplete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colleen Murphy’s new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states. There are many historical instances of nations whose citizens take action to change the nature of their regime from one of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colleen Murphy’s new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states. There are many historical instances of nations whose citizens take action to change the nature of their regime from one of authoritarianism to democracy. Whether from France in the 1790s to Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, the challenges facing new leaders to look to the future while accounting for the past can be daunting. Murphy argues that transitions need some degree of justice in order to be successful and she seeks to identify the key elements of just transitions. Murphy notes that a just result can take different forms, because of differences in culture, traditions, and the nature of the old regime. She further notes that transitional justice is not as clear and definitive as more familiar forms of justice, such as the retributive justice of the criminal law or the corrective justice of tort law. Instead, transitional justice involves degrees of accountability for wrongdoers and degrees of compensation and recognition for victims. The tools of transitional justice can include amnesties, criminal trials, memorials, truth and reconciliation commissions or reparations. Accordingly, not everyone in the society will be satisfied with the punishment, if any, meted out to perpetrators and the recognition given to victims may seem incomplete or insufficient. Nevertheless, in order to achieve a society-wide transition to a morally improved regime, traditional notions of justice may remain unsatisfied or incomplete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Episode 16, Nick chats with Lindley Darden, Professor of Philosophy at University of Maryland College Park, about her early days in the Conceptual Foundations of Science program at U Chicago, pressing Thomas Kuhn at dinner on progress in science, the importance of getting the history right, and doing philosophy that can be useful to scientists.Timestamps: 0:15 - Hello and welcome 03:03 - Lindley

The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law and a revised and expanded version of the lectures is usually published in the Hersch Lauterpacht Lecture Series by Cambridge University Press. The lecture comprises three parts, delivered on consecutive evenings, followed by a Q&A session on the fourth day. The 2017 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture series, entitled 'Privatisation Under and Of Public International Law' was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, by Professor Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg , from Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 March 2017. This part, entitled 'Conceptual Foundations and Privatisation in States Under the Purview of International Law', is the first of the three lectures given.

The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law and a revised and expanded version of the lectures is usually published in the Hersch Lauterpacht Lecture Series by Cambridge University Press. The lecture comprises three parts, delivered on consecutive evenings, followed by a Q&A session on the fourth day. The 2017 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture series, entitled 'Privatisation Under and Of Public International Law' was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, by Professor Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg , from Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 March 2017. This part, entitled 'Conceptual Foundations and Privatisation in States Under the Purview of International Law', is the first of the three lectures given.

The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law and a revised and expanded version of the lectures is usually published in the Hersch Lauterpacht Lecture Series by Cambridge University Press. The lecture comprises three parts, delivered on consecutive evenings, followed by a Q&A session on the fourth day. The 2017 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture series, entitled 'International Law and Women, Peace and Security' was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, by Professor Christine Chinkin, Emerita Professor in International Law and Director of the Centre for Women Peace and Security at the London School of Economics, from Tuesday 25 to Friday 28 October 2016. This part, entitled 'Women and Security', is the third of the three lectures given.

Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is an expert on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute’s Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. He invented market scoring rules used by prediction markets and has conducted research on signaling.   Hanson received a B.S. in physics from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, an M.S. in physics and an M.A. in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago in 1984, and a Ph.D. in social science from Caltech in 1997. Before getting his Ph.D. he researched artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics, and hypertext publishing. In addition, he started the first internal corporate prediction market at Xanadu in 1990.   Robin’s Challenge; Pursue your interests and start new projects in your free time. Your life will be long. You’ll have lots of time to pursue a lot of odd projects.   Check out Robin’s Book; Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth   Connect with Robin Twitter Website hanson@gmu.edu   If you liked this interview, check out episode 118 with Kevin Kelly where we discuss the inevitable technological trends shaping our future.

Among the very many puzzling aspects of the physical world is this: how do we explain the fact that the laws of thermodynamics are time-asymmetric while those of statistical mechanics are time-symmetric? If the fundamental physical laws do not require events to occur in any particular temporal direction, why do we observe a world in which, for example, we will always see milk dispersing in tea but never coming together in tea – at least not unless we film the dispersal and then run the film backwards? In The Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Meir Hemmo of the University of Haifa and Orly Shenker of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provide a fascinating and accessible defense of the position that the laws of thermodynamics are observer-relative, that the evolutions of physical microstates in classical mechanics have a direction of time but no determinate direction, and that the relation between observers and the dynamics determines the direction of time that we observe and capture in our thermodynamical laws. In consequence, they argue, it's just a contingent fact that we remember the past rather than the future, and Maxwellian Demons – perpetual motion machines that can exploit more and more energy while putting in less and less work – are possible.

Among the very many puzzling aspects of the physical world is this: how do we explain the fact that the laws of thermodynamics are time-asymmetric while those of statistical mechanics are time-symmetric? If the fundamental physical laws do not require events to occur in any particular temporal direction, why do we observe a world in which, for example, we will always see milk dispersing in tea but never coming together in tea – at least not unless we film the dispersal and then run the film backwards? In The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Meir Hemmo of the University of Haifa and Orly Shenker of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provide a fascinating and accessible defense of the position that the laws of thermodynamics are observer-relative, that the evolutions of physical microstates in classical mechanics have a direction of time but no determinate direction, and that the relation between observers and the dynamics determines the direction of time that we observe and capture in our thermodynamical laws. In consequence, they argue, it’s just a contingent fact that we remember the past rather than the future, and Maxwellian Demons – perpetual motion machines that can exploit more and more energy while putting in less and less work – are possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among the very many puzzling aspects of the physical world is this: how do we explain the fact that the laws of thermodynamics are time-asymmetric while those of statistical mechanics are time-symmetric? If the fundamental physical laws do not require events to occur in any particular temporal direction, why do we observe a world in which, for example, we will always see milk dispersing in tea but never coming together in tea – at least not unless we film the dispersal and then run the film backwards? In The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Meir Hemmo of the University of Haifa and Orly Shenker of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provide a fascinating and accessible defense of the position that the laws of thermodynamics are observer-relative, that the evolutions of physical microstates in classical mechanics have a direction of time but no determinate direction, and that the relation between observers and the dynamics determines the direction of time that we observe and capture in our thermodynamical laws. In consequence, they argue, it’s just a contingent fact that we remember the past rather than the future, and Maxwellian Demons – perpetual motion machines that can exploit more and more energy while putting in less and less work – are possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among the very many puzzling aspects of the physical world is this: how do we explain the fact that the laws of thermodynamics are time-asymmetric while those of statistical mechanics are time-symmetric? If the fundamental physical laws do not require events to occur in any particular temporal direction, why do... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diverging significantly from Marx's idea that history can be traced by the modes of production and the economy, Weber argues that history is characterized by different modes of authority. Leaders strive to rule in authoritative ways, they attempt to legitimate their uses of power. Weber argues that throughout history, leaders have successfully established domination in three modes of authority: traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational.

Diverging significantly from Marx's idea that history can be traced by the modes of production and the economy, Weber argues that history is characterized by different modes of authority. Leaders strive to rule in authoritative ways, they attempt to legitimate their uses of power. Weber argues that throughout history, leaders have successfully established domination in three modes of authority: traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational.

Jack Miles, MacArthur Fellow (2002-2007), visiting scholar at Occidental College, is the author of God: A Biography, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into 15 languages, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and many other publications. Over a period of nearly 20 years (1975-95), Miles was successively an editor at Doubleday, the executive editor at the University of California Press, the literary editor at the Los Angeles Times, and a member of the Times editorial board, writing on politics and culture. A Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University, Miles has been a Mellon visiting professor of humanities at Caltech, the director of the Humanities Center at the Claremont Graduate University, the regents lecturer at the University of California, and a visiting fellow with the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. Born in Chicago in 1942, Miles was a Jesuit seminarian from 1960 to '70, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before beginning his doctoral studies at Harvard. He is fluent in several languages. Since 1986, he has lived in Pasadena, Calif., with his wife, Jacqueline, a clinical psychologist, and their daughter, Kathleen. Selected Bibliography: Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (Knopf, 2001) God: A Biography (Knopf, 1995) The Perils of Pluralism: In Quest of a Common Literary Culture (1990)