I used to read a lot of Alfred North Whitehead (process philosophy, anyone?), but I’ve never read a lot (any) of Bertrand Russell. Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou was a great introduction to Russell’s significant contributions to logic, mathematics and philosophy. It covers neither his whole life nor all of his writings, […]
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I heard about Zachary Shore’s Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions via an interview with the author by D.J. Grothe on his Point of Inquiry podcast. Shore approaches the problem of cognition traps (his term for the different types of errors we make when trying to make decisions) as an historian. His descriptions of […] In October, our book club read Leonard Wibberley’s The Mouse that Roared. I chose this book to help us ease into the non-book meetings in November and December, and because I had a vague memory from having read it over thirty years ago (yes, it scares me to write that) that it contained some concepts […] Sunday morning we enjoyed the final two presentations, prior to heading back to sunny Mexico. Jonathan Kirsch gave a very interesting, very scary presentation on the Long Shadow of the Inquisition. He defined the Inquisitorial Toolbox as set of techniques, thoughts and methods that had been defined during the original Inquisition and that are still […] |
