{"id":7129,"date":"2021-04-14T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:33:58","slug":"koukal-argues-that-ignorance-is-a-structural-feature-of-human-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2021\/04\/14\/koukal-argues-that-ignorance-is-a-structural-feature-of-human-existence\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Philosophy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/philosophy\/faculty\/david-koukal\"><strong>David Koukal<\/strong><\/a> will present the topic, &#8220;Higher Education and the Deworlding of the World,&#8221; on Friday, April 30 at 11 a.m. In his paper, Koukal argues that ignorance is a structural feature of human existence that if ignored dangerously distorts our sense of the world, and so must be seen as a foundational premise in designing curricula in higher education. All Detroit Mercy employees, students and community members are encouraged to attend the virtual presentation.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is part of the annual meeting of the Canadian organization, the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Professor Koukal at <a href=\"mailto:koukaldr@udmercy.edu\">koukaldr@udmercy.edu<\/a> to receive the Zoom link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Philosophy David Koukal will present the topic, &#8220;Higher Education and the Deworlding of the World,&#8221; on Friday, April 30 at 11 a.m. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1513,175,4372,4374,4373,889,205,4375,95],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-1QZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}