The principle of epistemic modesty does not imply that people in high places know what they’re doing; quite the contrary.
Dec 032013
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Nov 202013
The first rule of philosophy is to forget everything you think you know. The second is to forget everything you know.
Nov 192013
One can be both right and ridiculous.
Oct 022013
No dogma is as consuming as relativism.
Sep 182013
Metaphysics: Logic metastasized.
Sep 172013
Stereotypes are folk statistics.
Aug 282013
The conclusions of philosophy are both true and interesting; but what is true is not interesting, and what is interesting is not true.
Aug 232013
Any discipline that aspires to predict the future must first predict the past.
Aug 222013
They laughed at Edison, they laughed at Fulton, and they laughed at every hopeless crackpot.
Aug 212013
Read a lot: think some: write a little.