Tag: "logic & critical thinking"

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Dear Socrates]

Bad News for Fibophiles

Miriam Abbott says the Fibonacci series tells us nothing about the natural world.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Articles]

How To Be Much Cleverer Than All Your Friends (so they really hate you)

Part II: Being a Superbeing. Study Bayes, says Mike Alder. Cont. from Issue 51.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Articles]

How To Be Much Cleverer Than All Your Friends (so they really hate you)

Part I: Design for a Superbeing. By Mike Alder.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Logic]

Analogies, Slippery Slopes & the Prohibition of Cannabis

Robert Davies applies some critical thinking to an old debate.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Logic]

On Probability & Life’s Little Miracles

Phillip Hoffmann on the importance of the astonishingly improbable.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Articles]

Thinking Straight

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Editorial]

A Logical Vacation

Julia Nefsky on the curiously strong connections between logic and humour.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Logic]

The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley

Bob Sharpe applauds Mary Midgley’s exposé of some modern myths.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Books]

Symbols Made Simple

A quick and friendly introduction to symbolic logic by Stephen Szanto.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Logic]