Joistings
A series of twenty-seven foundational essays whose name derives from “joists,” the beams that hold up the planks of a floor or the laths of a ceiling. The series has to do with building, indeed with the building of collaboration. Some of the essays are broadly heuristic, such as Joistings 21, on the three definitions of generalized empirical method. Others get into detailed methodologies, such as the two advanced essays on Quantum Theory (Joistings 24 and 25).
(Please note that in some of the essays there are hyperlinks to works hosted on an earlier version of this website. All of those essays are now available on this website and can be easily found using the search bar.)
Joistings 0: Ongoing Collaboration
Joistings 1: Beginagain
Joistings 2: Insight and Method: Beginners’ Books?
Joistings 3: What-to-do Questions
Joistings 4: Personality Types
Joistings 5: Genetic Systematics
Joistings 6: Jesus My Pilgrim Pacemaker
Joistings 7: The Friendships of the Invisible Man
Joistings 8: Recycling Satisfaction
Joistings 9: How might I become a better Teacher?
Joistings 10: What Do You Want?
Joistings 11: Small Steps Towards Functional Collaboration
Joistings 12: The Help of Adequate Naming in General Methodology
Joistings 13: Did Lonergan Abandon Metaphysics?
Joistings 14: Pedagogy, Popularization, Enlightenment
Joistings 15: What is Systemic Theology?
Joistings 16: History and Human Consciousness
Joistings 17: The Future of Medicine, or of Any Other Sickness: A Christmas Carol
Joistings 18: The Field and Unified Field Theories; God and I
Joistings 19: Ormerod’s Dated Ecclesiology
Joistings 20: Identifying Systematic Theology
Joistings 21: Research, Communications, Stages of Method
Joistings 22: Reviewing Mathew’s Lonergan’s Quest, and Ours
Joistings 23: Teaching, Preaching and Cherishing A Triune God
Joistings 24: Getting into ( the Philosophy of ) Quantum Mechanics
Joistings 25: Rescuing Quantum Mechanics
Joistings 26: Sow What: Heuristics of the Future
Joistings 27: “In the Twenty Seventh Place”