Given that I travel a lot it is easy to get out of touch with events back in Britain. The BBC web site is great and I have feeds for news of Welsh Rugby. Recently I subscribed to the online edition of the Guardian. It’s use of the berliner format was one of the most […]
Over the last year I have had the occasional exchange on the subject of religion, wars and suffering, the most recent one with Euan and Katheryn. I have taken the general line that religion reflects the human condition, and thus mirrors the culture and values of its time. I have also argued that it is […]
I was settling into my office/study in the Institute this morning when my next door neighbour Tom popped in to say hello and we ended up talking for an hour or two. He used to be in the RCMP and we were talking about how pedophiles have managed to exploit the blogosphere, a Washington Post […]
One of my favorite tests of an audience is borrowed from “The Geography of Thought” by Richard Nisbitt. I list three objects: Cow, Chicken, Grass. After a repeat and a stern instruction to close your eyes I get people to raise their hands for the odd one out. The pattern normally goes with Nisbitts research. […]
I’m currently reading an excellent book “fear of knowledge: against relativism and constructivism” by Paul Boghossian Prof. of Philosophy at New York University. It is short, witty and devastating in its criticism of the view that all knowledge is socially constructed – something that seems to pervade social sciences, along with a tendency to confuse […]
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