How To Think

The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.Illustration by Gérard DuBois In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one…

One of my favorite thinkers, Michael Shermer, provides a few facts that ought to be accepted as easily as as gravity is understood by an infant. Unluckily, our species possesses an ability of the brain to deny the plain, obvious, measurable and demonstrable. Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience describe…

  Every educated person should know, at least in part, about dozen-or-so fields of knowledge. There are more fields than a dozen - the summary below is only a beginning. The fields are grouped under general categories: Physical sciences, Life sciences, Humanities, Philosophy, Athletics. An individual is not a dolt…

  All research builds on philosophical and theoretical foundations.  These are based on the Quantitative or Qualitative paradigm, your specialization in the program, and specific theories of business/management and information technology. Philosophical assumptions derived from a paradigm that guides the design. These include Ontological assumptions about the nature of reality. Epistemological assumptions about…