This is too good to go unknown for so long (and I’m even late to the belated appreciation party).
Jim Holt’s sober review of Daniel Kahneman’s new book (Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman — Book Review – NYTimes.com) is wisely cautionary. An excerpt: “Even if we could rid ourselves of the biases and illusions identified in this book — and Kahneman, citing his own lack of progress in overcoming them, doubts … Continue reading
What Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, the Chilean students, and other global protest movements all have in common. – Slate Magazine.
Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again—By Kevin Baker (Harper’s Magazine). This piece strikes me as fitting (and prescient) in the current circumstances.
Possessing the concept of error might well be necessary for thinking even though it is impossible to make an error in thinking.
“The important point, however, is that there must be some normative principles bearing on PAs [propositional attitudes] to the effect that we ought to modify our PAs because of how they are. Rational normative principles are of the form that if one has such and such PAs then one ought to modify them in such … Continue reading
“This is what we ought to do and rationality ensures that we do it.” How does one show that ‘rationality’ is something more than a label for having done it?
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7635213/
This Saturday (April 24), Felician College will host the 4th annual Ethics Conference. All are welcome. Here is the schedule. http://faculty.felician.edu/khawajai/
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