It has been a long way, but it is now time to wrap up my commentary of Julian Baggini’s book, The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World. We have looked together with Julian at the proper… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: The complex ethics of being a tourist. Coincidences tell us more about our minds than how the universe works. The origins of post-truth and why we can’t… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: Are informal fallacies useful or not? What is a meaningful life, anyway? How consciousness works, and why we believe in ghosts. Okay, I’m sold! The cultish pseudoscience… Read More ›
We have arrived at the next to the last chapter in our long discussion of Julian Baggini’s The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World. To briefly recap, the first part of Julian’s book (chapters 1-3) was… Read More ›
Remember the stunt pulled by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, that embarrassment to the skeptic community which shall forever be known as the conceptual penis hoax? (See also this panel discussion about the incident.) Well, this post isn’t about that,… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: The five energetic epochs of evolution. On the dark history of intelligence (though author unfortunately does not make the ancient distinction btw intelligence & wisdom). Are right-to-try… Read More ›
We are now at the last few chapters of my ongoing discussion of Julian Baggini’s excellent book, The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World. Chapter 9 begins with a nice little summary of the two recurring… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: There is one thing that futurists have in common: they are very, very often completely wrong in their predictions. The metaphysics of pregnancy, and why it matters…. Read More ›
Theoretical biology’ is a surprisingly heterogeneous field, partly because it encompasses ‘‘doing theory’’ across disciplines as diverse as molecular biology, systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Moreover, it is done in a stunning variety of different ways, using anything from formal… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: Nobody ever wrote a best selling novel about Raphael, and yet… Don’t believe in God? Try UFOs instead. Monopoly was actually invented to demonstrate the evils of… Read More ›
Here we come to the eighth installment of my running discussion about Julian Baggini’s excellent book on the nature of rationality, The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World. In this chapter Julian takes on those people… Read More ›
