WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 173 – THE POINT ZERO ZERO ONE PERCENT My grandmother was a Bolshevik, and my father a socialist. I came to adulthood during the turbulent Sixties, and for two decades I’ve been surrounded… Read More ›
Month: September 2016
First to the Tribe
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 172 – FIRST TO THE TRIBE By a belief being true I mean its corresponding to some actual state of affairs. (What it is for a network of synapses in the brain,… Read More ›
Texting and Driving
TEXTING AND DRIVING Most accidents are caused by carelessness, most car accidents by careless driving. Careless driving can be caused by any number of things, including impairment but also a desire to impress one’s buddies. Or, less plausibly, one’s date…. Read More ›
Trigger Warnings
TRIGGER WARNINGS I take it that no one thinks we have a categorical obligation not to upset each other. But many of us think, myself included, that we have the right to try to protect ourselves from being upset. And… Read More ›
Protected Competition
PROTECTED COMPETITION Look, if we want to stay in shape we have to exercise. Exercise is boring, and so we won’t do it unless we can challenge ourselves by adding some kind of skill to what’s otherwise just raw movement…. Read More ›
Burkinis and Bathrooms
BURKINIS AND BATHROOMS Sometime during the Apartheid years in South Africa there was a proposal to do an end run around international condemnation of the regime’s racism by having certain rights – presumably the important ones – attach not to… Read More ›
Creationism
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 174 – CREATIONISM My colleagues are idiots because they seem to think it unnecessary to tell us to what positions their various labels are attached. We’ve already seen this, back in Rant… Read More ›
Confirmation Bias
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 171 – CONFIRMATION BIAS Okay, this is now the 314th time I’ll have said it. I take no interest, one way or the other, in any of the The-Sky-is-Falling-No-it’s-Not claims and counterclaims… Read More ›
If You Wanna Be Serious, Lighten Up
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 170 – IF YOU WANNA BE SERIOUS, LIGHTEN UP Some conceptions of God are incoherent. On pain of irrationality, those can be rejected ab initio. Others are coherent but they violate Occam’s Razor…. Read More ›
My Colleagues’ Residual Theism
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 169 – MY COLLEAGUES’ RESIDUAL THEISM Look! I realize it takes time to adjust. But it’s been over a century and a half since you were offered the Darwinian turn. It’s time… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 