Archive for the “philosophy” category
Maybe people aren’t as stupid as psychologists think
by Luke Rodgers on December 31, 2008
While browsing the slides from Joshua Porter’s lecture, Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design, I came across the following one, which presents the canonical example of the conjunction fallacy from Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman:
I wonder if a better explanation (…)
Greenspan’s mea culpa
by Luke Rodgers on December 20, 2008
Alan Greenspan reflects on how his ideological belief in the ability of markets to self-regulate has been shaken. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Oversight [pun?] and Government Reform Committee is on a bit of a self-righteous crusade and is obviously (…)
Could you have a base without a superstructure?
by Luke Rodgers on December 16, 2008
I don’t believe the terms ‘base’ and ’superstructure’ were articulated by Marx/Engels until later, but the gist of these distinctions is already apparent in the earlier work, The German Ideology. Reading the first part, on Feuerbach, one can’t fail to (…)
Environmental politics over the long term
by Luke Rodgers on October 21, 2008
According to George Monbiot,
While prime ministers in Italy and eastern Europe are demanding a bonfire of environmental measures in order to save the economy, in the UK politicians from all the major parties have made the connection between environmental destruction (…)
Bot-mediated reality
by Luke Rodgers on October 20, 2008
Having just spent upwards of 25 hours in a car driving between Peterborough, Toronto, and Pukaskwa National Park, one of the ways we passed the time was listening to a variety of podcasts, including Philosophy Bites, CBC Ideas, and the (…)
Slavoj Zizek: McCain is Bush with lipstick
by Luke Rodgers on September 28, 2008
The true message to American voters from the Republican Party, says Zizek, is: “you have the right not to understand. We will sell you this rhetoric about populist revolt and fighting Washington, but really you know we have the backroom (…)
Littering in outer space
by Luke Rodgers on September 23, 2008
As if seeing the earth from space was not already uprooting enough (PDF).
Consequences of bot-mediated reality
by Luke Rodgers on September 17, 2008
I have a lot of catch-up listening to do with regards to The Long Now Foundation’s excellent Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) lecture and podcast series. I’m a charter member of the Foundation, which gets you a sweet membership card (…)
