Theodore Scaltsas

Dory Scaltsas (西奥多 斯卡特萨斯) holds a Chair of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Edinburgh.He is developing the theory of BrainMining [大脑发掘] of emotive lateral solutions: Harvard Business Review (哈佛商评).He received his doctorate in philosophy at Oxford University (D.Phil.), where he wrote his thesis on Aristotle’s metaphysics, supervised by John Ackrill and Peter Strawson. He studied philosophy and mathematics at Duke University (B.S.), and at Brandeis University (M.A.).Dory continues his Affiliation with his alma mater, Oxford University, Wolfson College.Dory’s first appointment was at Oxford University, New College, as Lecturer in Philosophy, 1980-84. He then joined our department and has since held Research Fellowships at:    Harvard University, Research Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, 1987-1988.    Princeton University, Research Fellow, Seeger Research Center, 1989.Current Research:                                                          Creative Design of Digital-Well-being                                                            BrainMining for Sociopreneurship                                            "Ambiguity, all the way down, favours the strongest"                                    Trust is the only fabric that can hold together, organically,                                                          a multi-cultural/multi-stratous society. LET'S GET LATERAL --  LATERAL LABLec-shop 1:    Introduction to Creative Thinking  [various accounts of thinking creatively]Lec-shop 2:    BrainMining [大脑发掘]  [utilise our cognitive biases to solve problems creatively]Lec-shop 3:    Emotive Lateral Thinking and Valuative Intelligence  [increase our space of solutions)Creative thinking is what we are not taught, either at school or at university. Yet, it is ranked a top-trait by employers. It not being artistic, or entrepreneurial. It is about solving problems in novel ways, and tackling insoluble predicaments