Natural Reflections Review, Part I
I just finished Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s wonderful book Natural Reflections: Human Cognition ad the Nexus of Science and Religion, and I can’t rec...
Month: September 2010
Science and politics
The always insightful Ta-Nehisi Coates criticized Adrian Fenty for sloppy campaigning in his recent loss in the DC Democratic primary (emphasis added): I think ...
How to think about science
Via Matt Nesbit (in a post I’ll also try to comment on in my 3-day blogging rampage), I’d like to draw your attention to a wonderful series “H...
Indifference not scorn
Sorry for the long break–I’ve been traveling the past two weeks. I did, however, keep a mental list of topics I wanted to raise. Given that I̵...
Quote for the day
From page 9 of Natural Reflections: …contemporary research and theory suggest that the cognitive tendencies that give rise to much of what we call religio...
The narrowing of public discourse
It’s been a busy week and I haven’t had the chance to blog as much as I would have liked. Next week I’ll continue reviewing the Hernnstein-Sm...