Dan Dennett on Tools to Transform our Thinking

via iqsquared Related articles Daniel Dennett: How Memes Made Minds (meltyourmind.com) Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room (3quarksdaily.com) Towards a Neurophenomenology of Consciousness (jasonorous.wordpress.com) Dennett and LaScola's new book on nonbelieving clergy | Why Evolution is True (richarddawkins.net) Respect for truth in science and the humanities (3quarksdaily.com) Skyhook Theory: Intentional Systems versus Blind Brains (rsbakker.wordpress.com) …

Project Logicality | Notes on Common Fallacies & the Fallacist’s Fallacy

Identifying and labeling logical fallacies when they are used as argument strategies is useful – It weakens the rhetorical effect of the labeled argument, possibly even disqualifying it as viable support for a position. But common fallacies can be used not only to legitimately point out truly inductively weak, logically invalid, or otherwise unpersuasive arguments, …

Dan Dennett discusses consciousness & self-deception

We fool ourselves with frightening regularity, and to me, a fundamental difference between skeptics and true believers is the tendency of the latter to convince themselves that they cannot be fooled, that none can take advantage of them, even to the extent of thinking themselves immune to self-deception, the first and most basic of all …

Project Logicality | Logical Fallacies: The Appeal to Force

  Here we discuss the appeal to force, just for the sake of annoying pedantry, the argument from the cudgel, or the ad baculum fallacy. It’s an informal, language-derived argument, often an irrelevant appeal, to compel compliance or even merely seeming agreement with a claim using force or its threat, whether physical, psychological, or legal. …

Albert Einstein’s “The World As I See It”

Uploaded by C0nc0rdance on Mar 24, 2011 I think it's interesting to read some of how Einstein saw the world he lived in. He addresses societal commitments, ethical ways of living, and religious views. I've trimmed out huge sections of this book-length essay. For the full text, go to Amazon and buy it.