[ 6 September, 2007; 12:50 pm to 2:30 pm. ] On Thursday I enter the wide world of corporate speaking gigs with a talk to a group of underwriters at Vero. Yay, verily, I am involved with professional development and yay, verily, I’m somewhat conflicted by the notion.I’m not a friend of Capitalism.I got the gig because one of my Continuing Education students works for [...]
A Case Study in Critical Thinking: The North Head Conspiracy Theory
September 3rd, 2007 No Comments
Tags: Events · Inference · Testimony
The Worse of Both Worlds
July 2nd, 2007 2 Comments
Inbetween reading academic tomes and watching ‘Doctor Who’ I do, on occasion, read spurious Conspiracy Theory literature. As of today I have finished (read that either way) with the whole ‘Bloodline of Christ’ fandango that resulted famously in ‘The Da Vinci Code’ (and should have ended more famously with acres of media coverage of the [...]
Tags: 'Facts' · Courses · Explanations · Inference
More for my benefit than yours…
June 12th, 2007 No Comments
In the case of testimony, the most straightforward application of Inference to the Best Explanation would be to say that the agent infers that what the informant said is true just in case the truth of what was said is (part of) the best explanation of (among other things) the fact that the informant said [...]
Tags: Inference
