Jaipur National University is organizing a Four-Day National Seminar-cum-Workshop on “Radical General Semantics” from  16 to19 January 2013  in collaboration with the ‘Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics & Other Human Sciences’ . The Director of this Centre ,  Prof. P.C. Kar  has recently been honoured with 2012 Nicolas Guillen Lifetime Achievement Award   The Workshop sessions will be conducted by Prof. Bruce Kodish , a renowned American scholar of Korzybskian approach to Semantics.

The Seminar-Workshop will provide a balance of theory and personal practice in the approach to understanding and improving human evaluating strategies as advocated by Alfred Korzybski.

By ‘General Semantics’ Korzybski  intended ‘general theory of evaluation’. He had also referred to it as an ‘up-to-date Epistemology’

The workshop discussions will mainly focus on

(i)        Humans  as Time-Binding Class of Life’

(ii)      Aristotlian v/s Non-Aristotlian Orientations

(iii)    What constitutes a ‘Scientific Attitude’  ?

(iv)    Non-Verbal Awareness

(v)      Personal Development and Professional Applications and Research. (more…)