From the way I hear it, we're supposed to have a brilliant teacher/professor in college who one way or another becomes our mentor. It may be a formal thing but often it isn't. This person just happens to be someone who strings all the right words and motions in just the right order to make your brain light up in all the right ways and... I dunno ( Read more... )

[David Hume's] particular bugbear was a the idea of causality as a privileged link between two events that regularly succeed one from another. Hume demonstrated persuasively that there is no license for inferring from particular correlations of past events the generalization that one event causes another. The most that one can assume is that ( Read more... )

In my ongoing obsession with news and information - gone fully gluttonous over the past couple of years - I've been playing with the structures underlying the situations that give rise to stories, to the dramas that make it to the headlines. I guess I just get bored. It isn't enough for me to investigate why Republicans and Democrats have to face ( Read more... )