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- On Finding a Language in the Confusion of Tongues: US Healthcare
A rather remarkable debate in my undergraduate industrial-organizational psych class forms the groundwork for these thoughts. We begin with trying to think through the implications of David Brooks’ critique of Obama’s healthcare intiative in the NY Times a week ago. Not surprisingly, the effect of thought across a group of 27 individuals was to generate [...]
- Judging What We See
David Brookâs article in the NYT of April 9 is worth reading. He couches it in the shift from moral philosophy to ethics, as informed by cognitive science. The subject is the simultaneous actions of perception and apperception: the instantaneous linkage of sense data and implicit judgment. For fun, he might have added that implicit [...]
