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• Reflecting on Erich Fromm’s “To Have or To Be”

  
  kansas reflections — Authority: 117
  Erich Fromm is an influential social philosopher and prolific writer, whose life work offers a provocative synthesis of Western capitalism, Marxist humanism and socialist rational planning. He defines two modes of being: “to have” and ” to be”, and examines the characteristics and values of lives led in each ...
  3 days ago

• Interview with Keith Stanovich

  
  Solution Focused Change? Doing What Works — Authority: 415
  By Coert VisserDr. Keith Stanovich, Professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology of the University of Toronto, is a leading expert on the psychology of reading and on rationality. His latest book, What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, shows that IQ tests are very incomplete ...
  5 days ago

• Climate Research Unit email scandal

  
  The Lippard Blog — Authority: 126
  Hackers got access to a trove of private emails from the University of East Anglias Climate Research Unit that is being trumpeted by those who disbelieve in anthropogenic global warming as proof of scandal. My own look through the data (you can find a searchable archive of the emails here ) found a quite a few ...
  5 days ago

• Macro and the Organizational Capital Model, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Robert Shiller writes , Consider this possibility: after all these months, people start to think its time for the recession to end. The very thought begins to renew confidence, and some people start spending again -- in turn, generating visible signs of recovery. This may seem absurd, and is rarely mentioned as an ...
  6 days ago

• Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robert Greene on BloggingHeads.tv

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 538
  
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• Bounded Rationality, BI and Beyond

  
  Hexaware Blog Central — Authority: 100
  Herbert Alexander Simon , an American political scientist, economist, psychologist and professor, coined the term “ Bounded Rationality ”. Bounded Rationality is a concept which relates to the fact that the decision making capability of individuals is limited by the information that they have and the finite amount ...
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• Tom McCabe’s List of Lies on Twitter

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 538
  My friend and colleague Tom McCabe , who I consider one of the smartest people I know, has been Twittering some interesting stuff lately, in the last few hours especially. He has been posting a list of lies. Here is that list below, ending with #19: A list of lies. #1: For most Americans, an Ivy League college ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Search of the Mother Troll

  
  Dread Tomato Addiction — Authority: 118
  I was reading an article at Smithsonian.com:Evolution in the Deepest River in the Worldwhich I found quite interesting. What really caught my attention though was the comments. Third comment to appear was this:evolution is a biggest HOAX in world history ... and I think might be fairly called a Creationist.I wont ...
  2 weeks ago

• Getting attention — the comedy approach

  
  Enlightened tradition — Authority: 440
  One of the joys of Twitter is that people one follows often point to things that one would otherwise have missed. It was by that route that I became aware of the work of Chris Atherton . She is a specialist in visual perception, cognition and presentation skills. I first encountered her work when someone pointed me ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fine Tuning a bit Off Key

  
  Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself — Authority: 124
  
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• Exposure Therapy: When Probabilities Fail, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  In chapter 4 of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , I show that - objectively speaking - kids today are safer than ever .  And Im far from the first social scientist to point out the publics systematically biased beliefs about risk - try Aaron Wildavsky , Kip Viscusi , Cass Sunstein , or Levitt & Dubner .  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whats this? Faith AND Reason?!?

  
  Dread Tomato Addiction — Authority: 118
  Todd Wood, a Young Earth Creationist, has this to say:Evolution is not a theory in crisis. It is not teetering on the verge of collapse. It has not failed as a scientific explanation. There is evidence for evolution, gobs and gobs of it. It is not just speculation or a faith choice or an assumption or a religion. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aspect 5(b): A Mission Driven by Biblical Theology (Christ, Spirit, Man)

  
  Between The Times — Authority: 496
  (By: Danny Akin & Bruce Ashford) We believe theological and missiological method must be tethered to the doctrine of Christ . It is said that a Hindu once asked Dr. E. Stanley Jones, ‘What has Christianity to offer that our religion has not?’ He replied, ‘Jesus Christ.’” Indeed, Jesus Christ is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loose ends in Brno

  
  Just Another Deisidaimon — Authority: 100
  Last week I was at a small, two-day conference on the cognitive science of religion in Brno. There were only twenty-something people there, mostly from the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Poland, The only exception were the two key speakers, Armin Geertz and Jesper Sorensen, who were from Aarhus in Denmark. Most of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• House Bill Enslaving the US, Passes

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  I actually like the headline James Joyner puts up at a bit better: House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses to provide health coverage, and require insurance companies to cover ...
  2 weeks ago

• Judging quality

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 586
  according to sa’s new chief justice, sandile ngcobo, judicial temperament is a key attribute for aspiring judges.addressing the judicial service commission (jsc) in september, ngcobo added scholarship, experience, dignity, rationality, capacity for articulation, diligence, intellectual integrity, energy and courage ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bunch of whiny children, we are

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  When Americans in significant numbers begin to deny objective reality, and significant numbers of Americans who do not, themselves, deny reality nonetheless let the others get away with it, we are in a world of hurt. Denial has real costs, including real lives : In certain parts of the US, vaccination rates have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Emotional != Irrational

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 123
  So I’m in the middle of reading Bruce Hood’s Supersense , and so far it’s looking like a really worthwhile read. I’m going to wait till I’ve followed his reasoning through to the end before deciding exactly what I think of it, but it’s prompted me to think (and subsequently rant) about something that’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Emotional != Irrational

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 123
  So I’m in the middle of reading Bruce Hood’s Supersense , and so far it’s looking like a really worthwhile read. I’m going to wait till I’ve followed his reasoning through to the end before deciding exactly what I think of it, but it’s prompted me to think (and subsequently rant) about something that’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Two Links, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Both feature Tyler Cowen. Here (or perhaps you should start here ), he talks about stories. It is classic Tyler, playing cat and mouse games with your head. Basically, he is saying that stories have an advantage in that they serve as a filter for viewing the world, making them very economical in terms of ...
  3 weeks ago

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