Wisdom Course Reading Schedule

Return to Wisdom

14-Jan-15

• First Day Information

• Preliminary Discussion of Wisdom

• Small Group Discussion Task

21-Jan-15

• Hall, Chapters 1: “What is Wisdom?”

• Robinson, “Wisdom through the Ages”

• Discussion of Philosophical Method

• Hall, Chapter 2, Osbeck and Robinson, “Philosophical Theories of Wisdom, up to p. 70

• Labouvie-Vief, “Wisdom As Intergrated Thought: Historical and Developmental Perspectives”

28-Jan-15

Begin Group Short Answer Exercise

• Clayton, V., and J. E. Birren. “The Devleopment of Wisdom Across the Life Span”

• Carstensen, “The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development”

• Ardelt, “Wisdom and Satisfaction in Old Age”

04-Feb-15

• Birren, James E. and Svensson, Cheryl M., “Wisdom in History” (from p. 12-29)

• Hall, Chapter 3, “Heart and Mind: The Psychological Roots of Wisdom”

• Hall, Chapter 4, “Emotional Regulation: The Art of Coping” (Begins a section of Hall: “Neural Pillars of Wisdom”)

11-Feb-15

• Baltes, P. B, and Jacqui Smith. “Toward a Psychology of Wisdom and Its Ontogenesis.” (Sternberg) This is your primary introduction to the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm.

• Baltes, Paul B., and Alexandra M. Freund. “The Intermarriage of Wisdom and Selective Optimization With Compensation.”

• Kunzman, Ute and Paul Baltes. “The Psychology of Wisdom: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges.”

18-Feb-15

Begin SA #1 - Peerceptiv

• Hall, Chapter 6, “Moral Reasoning: The Biology of Judging Right from Wrong”

• Haidt, Jonathan. “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgement.” (recommended)

• Hall, Chapters 7 and 8: “Compassion: The Biology of Loving-Kindness” and “Humility: The Gift of Perspective”

25-Feb-15

• Sideritis, Chapter 2, "Early Buddhism: Basic Teaching"

• Pali Canon, “The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving”

• Ricard, Matthieu. Chapter 6, The Alchemy of Suffering" & 7 "The Veils of the Ego"

4-Mar-15

• Hall, Chapter 5. “Knowing What's Important: The Neural Mechanism of Establishing Value and Making a Judgement”

• Gilbert, Daniel. TED Talk. [href=“http://new.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness Why We Make Bad Decisions]

• Stanovich, “The Rationality of Educating for Wisdom”

• Sternberg, “Wisdom and its relations to intelligence and creativity”

18-Mar-15

• Epictetus, Enchiridion

• Long, “Epictetus in his Time and Place” (recommended)

• Hall, Chapters 12 and 13: “Youth, Adversity, and Resilience: The seeds of wisdom”

25-Mar-15

• Boyd and Richerson. “Culture and the evolution of human cooperation.”"

• Wilson, David Sloan, “Chapter 4: The Secular Utility of Religion”

• Sosis, Richard. “The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual.”

Begin SA #2 - Peerceptiv

• Topics: Choice of topic from March 4 or March 18. Please revise whichever material you found more interesting to you.

01-Apr-15

• Haidt, Jonathan, “Divinity with or without God,” The Happiness Hypothesis.

• Hall, Chapter 9, "Altruism: Social Justice, Fairness, and the Wisdom of Punishment"

• Edgerton, from “Sick Societies”, Chapter 2 (Chapter 1 if you have time).

08-Apr-15

• This class will be online due to conference travel. I will post a short audio to go with the usual class notes and study questions.

• Estes, Daniel. “Proverbs.” from, Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms

• Proverbs (read through any translation)

15-Apr-15

Begin Critical Insight Paper

• Job

• Ecclesiastes

• Song of Solomon

22-Apr-15

• Wilson, Timothy. “Chapter 8: Introspection and Self-Narratives” in Strangers to Ourselves

• Wilson, “Chapter 9: Looking Outward to Know Ourselves”

29-Apr-15

• Wilson, Timothy. “Chapter 10: Observing and Changing Our Behavior,” in Strangers to Ourselves

• Go back to later part of “Emo Dog” on social cognition, pp. 826-830.