Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS NOTES
1 Introduction and Overview: Why Study "Feelings?"

Conduct and Administration of Subject
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2 ZAAMM Part I

Human Systems: Levels and Aspects of Organization and Development

Affective Aspects in Human Systems from Cells to Societies
(PDF)
3 ZAAMM Part II

Learning Means Changing - Perceiving and Responding Appropriately

Memory: Preserving and Applying the Lessons of Experience

Relations Involving both Stability and Change

What Is the Aim? To Maintain Prevailing Conditions? To Promote Change?

Evaluating Behavior. What Is Good? What Is Not Good?

Moral Reasoning and Ethical Decision-making
4 ZAAMM Part III 

"Things of Beauty and Beholder's Eyes": A Field Trip in Search of Quality at the MFA
5 ZAAMM Part IV

MFA Field Trip Follow-up: Evaluating the Experience
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6 Wrapping up Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAAMM)

What is Quality in Education?
(PDF)
7 Problématique du changement: "Paradigms Lost and Regained"

What Is a "Scientific Revolution?"

Changing Beliefs, Values and Practices in Science and Society
(PDF)
8 The Neuropsychology of Affect

The Emotional Brain
(PDF)
9 The Science of Violence and Vice Versa? (PDF)
10 Ethics of Science
11 Environmental Values: What is "Sustainability?"

Environmental Values: What Does it Have to do with Affect?
(PDF)
12 Is "A New Way of Thinking" Conceivable?

Is a Paradigm Shift Necessary? Desirable? Possible?
13 Term Project/Paper Presentations

Closure Discussion