Book Review: Common Sense Toxics in the Workplace

Book Review: What Matters? Putting Common Sense to Work

In What Matters? John Flach and Fred Voorhorst offer an approach to understanding everyday cognition that stands in contrast to the standard approach that has generated interest in logical puzzles, bias, and formal approaches to rationality. More on that question mark in the title later, but the words presage a concern with what matters to us as cognitive agents as we engage purposefully with o...

Book review: The first sense

The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch is one of the rare contributions in theoretical and philosophical psychology exclusively on human’s sense of touch in the past decades. Although the study is conducted from a philosophical point of view, it is highly empirically informed. The author seeks to base his distinctions and arguments on empirical findings, but also offers his own o...

Book Review: Making Sense of Genes

Mandelbrot Makes Sense : A Book Review Essay

ers of chaos theory as it generated pictures of ever increasing complexity using a deceptively minuscule recursive rule, one that can be reapplied to itself repeatedly. You can look at the set at smaller and smaller resolutions without “ever” reaching the limit; you will continue to see the recognizable shapes. The introduction of fractals was not initially welcomed by the mathematical establis...

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