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Blogging Schick and Vaughn’s “How to Think about Weird Things”

Every other year or so I find myself returning to Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn’s critical thinking text, How to Think about Weird Things, and rereading the whole darn thing through again. Schick and Vaughn’s book is a rather popular college text, and it’s in its sixth edition. … Continue reading

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Thinking About Big Words

Over carrots: “The fact that you get upset when there are things that you don’t understand just shows you have curiosity.”

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What is Empiricism?

Here’s a quote from Wikipedia: In philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts that knowledge arises from experience. Empiricism is one of several competing views about how we know “things,” part of the branch of philosophy called epistemology, … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins on Being Human on This Earth: Not Just Privileged to Enjoy It, but to Ask Why of It, and to Understand

He’s pretty good. Richard Dawkins reading from his book, Unweaving the Rainbow:

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Quote of the Day

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote: “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

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