From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: zondag 30 november 2008 18:10 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] IT Conference Reflections INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 258 Amsterdam, November 30th, 2008 ON JOINING THE INTEGRAL COMMUNITY - MY JOURNEY TO THE FIRST INTEGRAL THEORY CONFERENCE, August 2008 - Tom Murray What integral theories create, over and above the particulars of the many disciplines that they try to integrate, are ways of seeing or sense-making, ways of interpreting diverse claims, questions, and methods in relationship with each other. As such integral theories are, for the most part, not things that can be empirically validated. Integral theories point to empirical claims, and members of the integral community engage in empirical research, for which standard empirical methods of validation easily apply. The main claims of integral theory are not empirical, they are more philosophical. Yet, as an emerging (or potential) discipline integral theory is more pragmatic, while still more elusive, than philosophy. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/murray2.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php