Category: Commentaries
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February 20, 2026
Relational Agency and the New Paradigm for Prosocial Organization, by Francis Heylighen
Relational agency shows how cooperation and collective action emerge from mutually reinforcing interactions, no altruism or central control required.
February 16, 2026
Strengthening and Safeguarding the New Paradigm, by Michael Pirson
A new economic paradigm must be an interlocking set of ideas about what people are and what organizing is for, or it will be absorbed into the old profit-first worldview.
February 10, 2026
From Paradigms to Purposes: Why the Real Paradigm Shift Is 'Evolution on Purpose,' by Steven C. Hayes
A genuinely new paradigm must pair evolution and complexity with purpose-driven, testable interventions that help societies 'evolve on purpose' toward explicit values.
February 3, 2026
The Theory of 'Appropriate Action': The Underspecified Dimension of 'The New Paradigm,' by Paul Dragos Aligica
The complexity–evolution paradigm explains systems well but needs a stronger ethical and institutional framework to guide effective action.
February 2, 2026
Social Science Paradigms as Evolutionary Selection Environments, by Dennis Snower
Social science paradigms don’t just explain society — they shape it, acting as selection environments for institutions and behavior
January 7, 2026
On the Concept of Paradigms and a New Paradigm for Evolving Cooperative Systems, by David Sloan Wilson
Our 21st-century crises are rooted in outdated, individualistic paradigms. A new complexity and evolution-based paradigm can better guide science, policy, and collective action.
July 29, 2025
Herbert Simon and the Sciences of the Artificial, Through the Lens of a New Paradigm
Herbert Simon’s visionary work laid the foundations for a new paradigm uniting evolutionary science and complex systems thinking.
January 18, 2024
Evolutionary Mismatch and What To Do About It
Mismatches are an inevitable consequence of evolution in changing environments, but some mismatches call for preventative measures to preserve what we value.
July 28, 2023
Can Evolution Be Conscious? Introducing a Collection of Commentaries Published on This View of Life
To make the concept of conscious evolution fully respectable again, TVOL is pleased to feature this collection of commentaries by leading evolutionary scientists and philosophers.
July 7, 2022
Why We Experiment
Words such as “science” and “experiment” mean different things to different people. Here is what we mean by these two words and how our organization, ProSocial World, puts them into action.
January 21, 2022
Joe Rogan Has Built His Career on Anti-Science Misinformation. I Should Know Because I Was On the Receiving End
Joe Rogan is one example of a wider problem in our age of misinformation.
January 19, 2022
A Rebuttal to “The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson”
Wilson’s insights speak for themselves and his dozens of worthy titles allow us to grapple with his actual ideas directly.
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