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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Two OSB-funded scholarships for VUB students and researchers are available to join the 2025/26 cohort (Year Tau) of the Postgraduate School of…
In these turbulent times, the ability to think well - critically, adaptively, and resiliently - is a must. The VUB’s renewed School of Thinking, now…
We've done it! As 2023 comes to a close, the refreshed School of Thinking is well under way. A large, diverse, and open-minded group of…
Three years of delivering an innovative, trans-disciplinary program for thinkers has taught us what our students find most valuable: the process of opening one’s mind,…
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images -Jean Cocteau Members of the SoT community, CLEA research community, and other interested scholars are invited…
10 Commandments 10 Commitments A personal(ised) Thinking Decalogue Arno Geens (Student SoT Delta), June 2022. #1 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish Keep a state of…
The Fragmentation Decalogue An ode to the beauty of the unsolved. Gunther Van Lany (Student SoT Delta), january 2021. Inspired by Rudolf Boehm and…
The Decalogue of Thinking by Edward Nęcka, 2021 1. Never take anything for granted If one takes an idea for granted, one does not…
Long, long ago, about this time last year, the Iota students have challenged their instructor, prof. Edward Nęcka, to formulate a set of principles that…
We are pleased to announce that we are now taking applications for the regular track of Postgraduate School of Thinking. The fourth year, dubbed 'Epsilon'…
We are still accepting applications for the third edition of the School of Thinking - regular track (‘Year Delta’ 2021/22), but the application deadline is…
“Thought is but a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.” A less known quote by Henri Poincaré that is the important…
Denken is een redelijk essentieel onderdeel van elke opleiding of elke studie. De School of Thinking gaat nog een stap verder. Het eenjarige postgraduaat aan…
We are now accepting applications for the third edition of the School of Thinking - regular track (‘Year Delta’ 2021/22). See 'Admissions' in order to…
Our ‘principles of thinking’ challenge, initially taken up by prof. Edward Nęcka in his Decalogue, has also triggered Sayfan G. Borghini, an Instructor at the…
Our ‘principles of thinking’ challenge, initially taken up by prof. Edward Nęcka in his Decalogue, has also triggered Vincent Martin, a Student of the Iota…
As an answer to the contemplating thinking of weaver I invite you to the following personal thinking experience.
In tribute to Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson, The Other, The Beautiful Mind, Hades and my Muse…
Intracognitive thought roving, the adaptation of extracognitive input and being able to connect this to and from an embodied mindset will create a collection of…
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music…
A critical thinker thinks independently of others, analyzes, evaluates, synthesizes and assesses in order to arrive at his own, well-founded, conclusions. It means that he…
Symbols and words provide but a narrow bandwidth; they seem to be an added layer of modality, mostly condensing reactions to whatever we experience.
In one of the recent classes at the School of Thinking, Year Iota, the students challenged the instructor, prof. Edward Nęcka, to formulate a set…
The Fellows is a first of its kind thinking initiative at The School of Thinking, designed to advance the participants' expertise in selected heuristics and…
While our Alpha Thinkers are getting ready for the final session of their (corona-extended) curriculum, you might be interested to know that we have been…
As of 1.09.2020, new registrations to the Iota Year are now closed* and the group is ready to launch. In mid-September the students will receive…
The Research Track of the SoT is currently undergoing a reorganisation and will not be admitting students for the Year Iota (2020/21). We are working…
We continue to accept applications for the second edition of the School of Thinking - regular track (‘Year Iota’ 2020/21). In response to requests for…
Dear members of the alpha year life-long learners and thinkers this letter marks the arch of the complexity module, and before anything else I wish…
Response letter to student assignments Dear students, thinkers, players I would like first to express my appreciation for the effort and enthusiasm you have…
The Center Leo Apostel (CLEA) invites you to the next open seminar of the 2019-2020 series, taught by a student of our School of Thinking.…
Getting Serious about Playful Thinking “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been…
Dear participants, I am addressing you as your guide in the session on design thinking and research (April 2, 2020). I thank you in advance…
Dear Students of the Postgraduate School of Thinking, In 2017, the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation…
Dear thinkers, Thank you for making last Thursday a day to remember – with your unrelenting inquisitiveness, sharp focus and critical investigative spirit. You are…
Dear Historical Forms of Consciousness, I first want to thank you all for your time and attention, and repeat how grateful and humble I am…
The Center Leo Apostel (CLEA) invites you to the next open seminar of the 2019-2020 series, taught by a student of our School of Thinking.…
Dear Members of the Postgraduate School of Thinking And fellow life-long learners, how else to address the common desire to forward the process, interactions and…
We are now accepting applications for the second edition of the School of Thinking - regular track (‘Year Iota’ 2020/21). The application letters are reviewed…
Dear thinkers, In a month from now, we’ll get together to dive into ethical thinking. Ethics of course rings a familiar bell to you. You…
