Learning through Inspiration and Beauty
Learning through Inspiration and Beauty
Questions surrounding the 2020 Pandemic.
A brief consideration of how science gets transformed into Scientism during this pandemic and how science, while great, does not save us from making essentially ethical decisions.
A follow up to the earlier pandemic lectures focusing on the social contract and some of the tensions and government failings that have led to this moment of nation wide unrest - a sure sign your social contract is under stress. Picture is of James Baldwin, underappreciated writer and thinker.
A few thoughts of difficulty of not knowing during a time of stress and fear and how that creates tension in the social contract.
A brief consideration of the question of our social contract in a time of national and international stress brought on by the Coronavirus. Some things to ponder and look forward as together we set off into uncharted lands. Presented by Wesley Cecil PhD
Interesting developments as our society moves through these uncharted waters. The next couple of weeks will be quite telling about the evolution of our response to a pandemic and an economic collapse.
A quick reflection on the difficulties we face when we try to think when feeling fear and faced with unknowns.
A few more logical fallacies to ponder as thinking about our world has grown so much more challenging. This conversation introduces the idea of the fallacy of the Average or Middle Ground, Appeal to Ignorance and Appeal to Fear.
This lecture explores the common fallacy "Texas Sharpshooter" and our almost irresistible desire to select for data that supports our idea.
A couple of more fallacies and a possible analogy for our current interesting situation.