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Rose, L. T., & Fischer, K. W. (in press). Dynamic systems theory. In R. A. Shweder (Ed.), Chicago companion to the child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dynamic Systems Theory L. Todd Rose & Kurt W. Fischer Diversity is the hallmark of human behavior: Regardless of age or experience, people’s performance changes dramatically depending on context, including the presence of different people. The same sixth-grade student who can easily solve a difficult math problem in class often cannot solve the same problem at home on her own, or even in class the next day. These kinds of fluctuations in performance can be frustrating, but they are normal. The fact is that variation is a part of all human behavior. Yet despite its pervasiveness, variability has frequently been ignored in developmental science. As a consequence, the field now brims with elaborate descriptions about global changes in behavior, but it struggles to explain why a child can recite the alphab...

PLANTING AN OAK IN A FLOWERPOT Manu Bazzano To quote from this chapter: Bazzano, M. ( 2016) „Planting an Oak in a Flowerpot‟ in Chisholm, B. & Harrison, J. (Eds) The Wisdom of Not-Knowing Axminster, Devon: Triarchy pp. 83-92. „Knowing‟ is a fetish. It gives us brief comfort against life‟s inherent uncertainty. Socratic „not - knowing‟ is another, „ softer ‟ kind of fetish, at times adopted by psychotherapists and Dharma practitioners alike to heighten our humanistic and religious credentials. This chapter explores – via a case study, a reading of Dōgen‟s notion of pilgrimage (hansan), and elements of Emily Brontë ‟s novel Wuthering Heights – a form of „not - knowing‟ that points towards the unknowable. Several traditions speak of the unknowable, using different names: the organism, the unconscious, the ultimate. By resisting a sectarian compulsion to reify any of these notions and claim direct and exclusive access to them, we may avoid the lit...