Research Community Presentations

A list of presentations given by members of the Life Itself Research community.

• Jonah Wilberg on Wise Altruism (Research Community Call, May 2025). Jonah Wilberg shares his research on how the cognitive science of wisdom can serve an expanded notion of Effective Altruism.
• Momcilo Mijovic on Sensemaking, Blindspots and Systems Contradictions (Research Community Call, May 2025). Momcilo Mijovic shares a brief summary of his research into sense-making, blindspots and the process of surfacing societal contradictions.
• Simon Grant on Ontological Commoning (Research Community Call, April 2025). Simon Grant explores the process and practice of finding common ground between different perspectives on a complex situation.
• Matthew McCarthy on Navigating the Epistemological Delirium (Research Community Call, March 2025). Matthew McCarthy explores how the dominant values behind knowledge production might be re-imagined in the coming years.
• Momcilo Mijovic on Pierre Bourdieu and Common Sense (Research Community Call, February 2025). Momcilo Mijovic explores Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of society as a continuously spinning cycle of re-production.
• Jonah Wilberg on Paradigm Shifts and Progress in Cultural Evolution (Research Community Call, February 2025). Jonah Wilberg explores the idea of progress in cultural evolution, in relation to Thomas Kuhn’s notion of scientific paradigm shifts.
• Jamie Bristow on Exploring Societal Resilience in the Face of the Polycrisis (Research Community Call, December 2024). Jamie Bristow explores the critical role of psychosocial resilience in the face of crisis and collapse.
• Nicholas Wilkinson on our Relationship to Nature in a Mass Extinction (Research Community Call, November 2024). Nicholas Wilkinson dives into the the complex relationship between humans and nature.
• Rufus Pollock on Christopher Alexander, a Second Renaissance Visionary (Research Community Call, July 2024). Brown bag talk about Christopher Alexander as a pioneering Second Renaissance (aka Integral, Metamodern etc) thinker and practitioner.
• Tom Morgan on Finding Purpose Beyond Wealth and Expectations (Research Community Call, April 2024). Tom Morgan delves into the fusion of spirituality and materialism for individual and societal growth.
• Boaz Feldman on Nervous System Approaches for Resilient Community Living (ICSA Virtual Conference, January 2024).