Center for Applied Dialectics

Manifesto

  • There is a fascinating emerging body of knowledge in the field of adult development.
  • Notably, the insights around cognitive development are not fully accessible yet.
  • How would our world look if we applied these evolving insights to the fields of businesses, education, politics etc?
  • CAD, the Center of Applied of Dialectics, opens up a platform for practitioners in the field of adult development, integrating research into their practice, exchanging findings and thereby nourishing each other, empowering others to do likewise.

 Upcoming Salons -  The next dates: 

  • 19th December 7pm CET:   Bruno Frischherz: Applied Dialectics in Ethical Dialogues

My presentation is divided into three parts: I will start the presentation with a specific ethical dilemma from digital ethics: People Analytics. On the one hand, people analytics offers companies the opportunity to improve the efficiency of the HR department with the help of employee data; on the other hand, the privacy of employees is a human right. How can such a conflict of values ​​between efficiency and privacy be resolved in practice?

In the second part, I will present a problem-solving scheme that helps to analyze and resolve value conflicts. The Problem-Solving Scheme is based on dialectical thinking and can be applied both in public discourse and in internal dialogue. For me, dialogues about ethics are applied dialectics.

Finally, I will present the project “Intercultural Business Ethics (IBE)” in higher education. It is the result of collaboration between lecturers from South Africa, China and Switzerland in an ongoing intercultural teaching project. The basic idea is that students discuss ethical dilemmas from the business world in culturally mixed groups and present their joint solution proposals in a short video.

After the presentation we can discuss the Problem-Solving Scheme and the case studies.

Two handbooks on applied ethics at universities can be downloaded free of charge as open access publications from Globethics:

Intercultural Business Ethics (IBE) - https://globethics.net/publications/intercultural-business-ethics-ibe

Digital Ethics - https://globethics.net/publications/digital-ethics

 

  • Feb 6th 2025, 7pm CET: Jeff Schraeder:  Applying CDF in Organizations 

The zoom link for all salons:  https://zoom.us/j/4078847969?pwd=K1ZxbWxEdi9aaXdJdGJKaTVuTEk0QT09

Use this link to integrate the CAD calendar into your google calendar - no more misunderstanding about time zones :-) https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=d2VhdmVyQHByby1hY3Rpb24uZXU

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Past Salons:

 

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The Reading list - please recommend more :  https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/68149330?shelf=cad-center-for-applied-dialectics

Our youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@cad-centerforapplieddialec9451

The current expert practitioners holding the platform:

 

Some of the people at least loosely connected with CAD and their resources (in progress):

 

CAD - Otto Laske / interdevelopmentals.org 

The setup of CAD is financially supported by the EU, as it is part of the CADRA project - Cognitive Adult Development, from Research to Application - see https://fraendi.org/cadra/