Two of the chapters from my book in progress The Thinker’s Toolbox are now available. Click here to read a comics interpretation of a condensed critical thinking lesson, or click here to read the chapter on life sciences, including (of course) evolution. I expect to make the whole book available as time permits. Chapters can be read in any order. Enjoy!
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Just added, to the Writing section at left, a forthcoming neuroethics-esque paper I wrote about neuroscience, free will, our lack thereof, and medical and legal competence. The greatest scientific discovery of all time is the set of methods and practices used to determine what counts as a discovery. I suspect that for pseudoscientists, the generation of multiple ideas and theories to explain a set of data means work. For scientists, it means play. The more carefree and unselfconscious ease you can bring to the process of inquiry, the more likely you are to arrive at the truth. I’m reading Lakoff & Johnson: Philosophy in the Flesh. Lakoff may mention this somewhere explicitly, and perhaps I’ve even seen him do so, but in any case: the modal western spatial metaphor for time is that the future is ahead of us and the past is behind us. For some reason, I am enamored of rotating this 90 degrees, so that the future becomes up and the past down. Besides being more congenial to geological (e.g. sedimentary) processes, there is something cosmically modest about making reference to the stars when referring to the future. |
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