TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherScience and Technology Studies (STS) is a field. What unites it?In my transitional post to STS themes, I may have exaggerated a bit — just a bit. I pleaded ignorance about what ‘unites’ the field; about…6d ago6d ago
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherSwitching gears to Science and Technology Studies…There are a few more pieces I would eventually like to write on formal and existential thinking, specifically on the origins of logical…Jul 10Jul 10
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherFormal and existential thinking — some swans can be black!A friend of mine came up with an ingenious example of how existential and formal thinking work together, and I want to elaborate on it…Jul 91Jul 91
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherFormal and existential thinking — the Trolley ProblemSome interesting questions about formal and existential thinking have come in from friends, so I wanted to break this hiatus to add some…Jul 21Jul 21
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherMore on existential and formal thinking — numeracyA friend of mine with more sense than most people I know asked for a Cliff Notes (remember those!) version of the distinction between…Jun 71Jun 71
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherMore on the excluded middle — formal and existential thinkingThe post “The bias of the excluded middle” referred to the collaboration between formal and existential thinking. I would like to…May 301May 301
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherThe bias of the excluded middleA friend at a social gathering made a comment about Haidt and Lukianoff’s movie, Coddling of the American Mind, that struck me as both…May 221May 221
TheAnal-lyticPhilosopherSitting Down(Link to the Title Page, Preface and Table of Contents)May 20May 20
