Tag: Paradigms
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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Our 21st-century crises are rooted in outdated, individualistic paradigms.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.
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