Neurotrash
Mark Signorelli reviews Raymond Tallis’s Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity: Considerable portions of Aping Manki...
Category: Book Reviews
Minor gripes with Natural Reflections
I’ll try to balance my two glowing reviews of Natural Reflections with some mild criticism. There are two specific complaints I have. First, as I’...
The meaning of belief
Given my long standing interest in clarifying the public vocabulary of science and highlighting the diversity of scientific practices, I was heartened to see Ba...
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...
Misleading pictures
This past week I’ve been at the Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy. It’s really a great conference with a nice mix of acad...
(Very) brief review of “Rethinking Expertise”
So I just plowed through Harry Collins and Robert Evans’ [henceforth CE] Rethinking Expertise. Though it’s a bit dense, you’ll find it insight...