Tag: "logic & critical thinking"

Metaphors & Creativity

Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025: Articles]

Barriers to Entailment by Gillian Russell

Christopher John Searle recommends a study of which moves are allowed in logical arguments.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025: Books]

The Funnel of Righteousness

Peter Worley tells us how to be right, righter, rightest.
[Issue 164: October/November 2024: Articles]

Abelard & Carneades: Yes & No

Frank Breslin says ‘yes and no’ to presenting both sides of an argument.
[Issue 162: June/July 2024: Articles]

Hume’s Problem of Induction

Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024: Articles]

The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton

Leonid Bilmes considers the problems we face if we assume our theories match reality.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024: Books]

Cogito, Ergo Sum?

Raymond Tallis has a long-postponed meeting with M. Descartes.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024: Tallis in Wonderland]

Rudolph’s Revenge

Samantha Neave tells a good old-fashioned tale of Christmas scheming.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024: Fiction]

Back to the Sophists

Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry.
[Issue 156: June/July 2023: Articles]

Uncertainty Made Measurable

Rob Selzer sizes up a human confidence interval.
[Issue 156: June/July 2023: Vagueness]