Types of thinking and geometry problems

I am glad to see studies about the matching of types of thinking and types of problems. I saw this one yesterday: “A new study in the journal Mind, Brain, and Education reveals that certain types of thinking are best suited to solving certain types of problems. Specifically, geometry problems are best solved by a […]

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David Foster Wallace and “the terrible master”

“In 2004, [suicide] was the eleventh leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for 32,439 deaths.” (NIMH website). Next time you look at a baseball stadium that holds approximately 5,000 people, imagine  6 of these stadiums filled with people – and that’s for 2004 alone. In 2008, around the world, the number is closer […]

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The Philosophy of Disability

Humbolt State University in California publishes a bi-annual journal on philosophy. Their January 2008, issue is focussed on the philosophy of disability. This was a most unexpected find for me. I have been reading philosophy lately but I never expected it to lead me back to a topic I deal with everyday as an user […]

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Derrida from Deconstruction to Disruption.

Physics, one of our key-stone sciences has plenty of room for disruptive innovation within its paradigm. One of the potential paths to change would be through philosophy. Physics has dependencies on narrowly defined ideas that could be improved through philosophical thinking. This also leads me to think that philosophers should be part of the innovation […]

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I have been thinking about meaning, time, change, knowledge and science and the frameworks that support these concepts. But recently, while reading Robert M. Pirsig’s book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I realized that he has already captured some of these same ideas in his classic book. It surprises me to know that […]

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Reading list 10-11-2007

Oxford University Press just reprinted a book called the Oxford Guide to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. This is a dictionary-like, encyclopedia-like book with 1,000 pages delving into philosophy from A-Z. This hardback is surprisingly affordable ($9.99 U.S.D. at Border’s Books and Music). If you’re a geek like me, you may find that the elaborate […]

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Quote of the Day.

“Blogging is intellectual prototyping.” Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. You put the ideas out there and start a conversation that leads to something… or not.” Source: BusinessWeek’s Nussbaum On Design blog: Quote of the Day. ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information […]

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The Edge Foundation and Third Culture

Stumbled on a book called What is Your Dangerous Idea? (I assume the title is a nod to Daniel C. Dennett’s book Darwin’s Dangerous Idea.) In the preface of the book they mention “The Edge” a project aiming to put together some of the most interesting thinkers together in a room to have them ask […]

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Nietzsche’s Either / Or Legacy

Either / Or logic can be expressed in many different ways. Western philosophy is full of examples. Nietzche’s concepts of the “master” and “the slave” is an example of this polarized perspective. By classifying individuals as either “master” or “slave” he proposed a limited range of possibilities for interpretation and classification of the psycho-social behavior […]

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Nonduality and either/or thinking

“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought…The sense-experiences are the given subject-matter. But the theory that shall interpret them is manmande…hypothetical, never completely final, subject to question and doubt.” – Albert Einstein. “The world we have made as a result of the […]

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