"In some, or all of these respects, most modern philosophers have been, in effect, Cartesians. Now without wishing to return to scholasticism, it seems to me that modern science and modern logic requires us to stand upon a very different platform from this.

1. We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with the prejudices which we actually ( Read more... )

This is based on a fascinating paper I was reading today. What are people's first reactions to the question I ask below (assuming that I'm not trying to be tricky ( Read more... )

I discovered this show, The Guild, and it is hysterical. It is a comedy about a group of online gamers. I highly recommend you all check it out (and tell me what you think.) I loved it.

The web address for the show is: http://www.watchtheguild.com/ 

These photos are from a psychology conference I attended over the weekend. I thought they were pretty fascinating. The first SPECT scan is of a normal brain.

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I am the biggest absolute dork in the world. Today I got in the mail the book, "Reading And Understanding More Multivariate Statistics" (Grimm, G. L., & Yarnold, P. R. Eds.). There is a chapter in it that covers cluster analysis, a huge interest of mine, and it is AWESOME!!! It explains things beautifully, has diagrams, examples, and even includes ( Read more... )

I am reading one of the best books I have read in a very long time. It is by Eric Kandel, a nobel prize winner in physiology/medicine, and is a memoir of his life in science. It describes how he discovered the neurobiological basis of memory along with all the detail of what he discovered. It is so well written you don't realize that you are ( Read more... )

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This made me happy.

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I have now submitted by transfer to active status. Soon I'll be an active lawyer again. How crazy is that.

I'm busy converting my license status from inactive to active. This requires that I attend a whole lot of CLE courses and make up educational hours that I should have been acquiring as active. So far I've gone to ones on: the basics of civil litigation (all day); and Understanding Problem Gambling (only 2 hours.) Today (my birthday,) I have How to ( Read more... )