George Shiber Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

George Shiber

Good reads @ NDPR: Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy https://t.co/VrYsuYwCDF Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition https://t.co/MIjD0wJtrG https://t.co/QvGZ6KRuJ4

George Shiber

Sunday reads: Plato’s Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion https://t.co/jVTAZxA0Jr What's Social About Social Epistemology? https://t.co/1xsqB3gkiG

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A new book that critiques environmentalism is 'deeply and fatally flawed.' Bad science, strawman arguments, cherry-picking facts, ad hominem attacks, and bad arguments abound in 'Apocalypse Never' by Michael Shellenberger. https://t.co/8e84K1hj4S Excellent smackdown review. https://t.co/B5ORogHvCt

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Richard Healey, The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy 'Quantum theory "is a new kind of science" that "is simply not in the business of representing what happens in the physical world"' https://t.co/R7iYhckgV3 Reviewed by Alastair Wilson https://t.co/FPoQkFI8aF

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"The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World" by Adrian Wooldridge, review — Does meritocracy work? This history argues that hard work is as key to success as intelligence. https://t.co/fm4KPYFTUB https://t.co/MiIMTruCah

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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” In America, that need seems bottomless. LARB review of "Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber" by Andy Borowitz. https://t.co/CK6Ty7NOIM https://t.co/l9JwaGseZR

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“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.” ‘The Beauty of Mathematics’ by Yann Pineill: https://t.co/x6ODPDYdGf

George Shiber

The Key to Democracy: A Century of Free Speech — Paul Finkelman reviews Ian Rosenberg’s "The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms." https://t.co/1n91PPyhzm

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Why is there something rather than nothing? Sidney Morgenbesser had the best reply: “And if there were nothing? You’d still be complaining!” https://t.co/pkwcSAwZYh

George Shiber

Harvard Science Book Talks and Research Lectures: "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else" — Jordan Ellenberg in conversation with Cathy O'Neil. https://t.co/PigLSwPGRK