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Asshole Rising
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, The First Sixty Years By Geoffrey Nunberg PublicAffairs 272 pages _______________ Linguist and Berkeley professor Geoffrey Nunberg states early in his new book Ascent...
View ArticleThe School of Arthur Danto
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: Art, Danto, Arthur C (1924-2013), Philosophy Each semester for a quarter-century, as...
View ArticleAn unexamined life is not worth living
By Peter Espeut It's all the fashion to attack religion, and Christianity in particular; and the attacks come from many sides. For example, some natural scientists say religion is no more than...
View Article10 Brain-Breaking Scientific Concepts
Mike Floorwalker May 4, 2013 Check out our new companion site: http://knowledgenuts.com Many of us here at Listverse really enjoy messing with the heads of our readership. We know that you come here...
View ArticleDaniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
Daniel Dennett: 'Often the word "surely" is as good as a blinking light locating a weak point in the argument.' Photograph: Peter Yang/August 1 USE YOUR MISTAKES We have all heard the forlorn refrain:...
View ArticleAn Author Attracts Unlikely Allies
In 1974 Thomas Nagel published a short essay arguing that the subjective experience of consciousness — what philosophers call the “qualia” — could not be fully reduced to the physical aspects of the...
View ArticleWhy "Deliberate Practice" Is The Only Way To Keep Getting Better
Let's say that you like to play the piano. Maybe you even want to be an expert one day--that way you could write songs for your crush, get in touch with your inner Beethoven, and lead barroom...
View ArticleReasons Matter (When Intuitions Don’t Object)
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: intuition, Jonathan Haidt, Philosophy, psychology, reason This post by the psychologist Jonathan Haidt is a...
View ArticleHow GitHub, Yammer, And Broadway Shows Prove Temp Teams Are The Most...
When we talked with Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni earlier this year, he dropped some iterative knowledge on us: The Microsoft-acquired social business startup forms and dissolves its engineering teams....
View Article'Breaking Bad': 5 Heartbreaking Quotes From 'Granite State'
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Walt's plea, Jesse's bold stand, and Todd's twisted apology make THR's list of best lines from Sunday's episode. Ursula Coyote/AMC Michael Bowen, left, and Jesse Plemons...
View Article3 Ways To Make The Boring Parts Of Your Day A Lot Better
It's easy to think that if we're pursuing our passions, living our dreams, or whatever the creative people are doing, then everything at work will feel "important, meaningful, and engaging," as...
View ArticleThe medium's apprentice
Is it possible for the living to contact the dead? Capilano University psychologist Leonard George was determined to find out. The noted author and researcher travelled to upstate New York - to the...
View ArticleSeeing Too Much: The science of topless sunbathing
Celebrities sunbathing topless are a common sight in the tabloids, but there are scientific elements to this beyond the obvious titillation factor (no pun intended) Sunbathing is a common pastime, but...
View ArticleLouis C.K. Workshops New Material in Surprise Brooklyn Shows
Around noon on Monday, word began spreading that Louis C.K. would give three standup performances that very night at Brooklyn's Bell House. The set-up: C.K., the comedian whom Chris Rock calls "the...
View ArticleBook review: Holiday book-giving starts here
Holiday book shopping? For those who mix academia with business, try flipping through a book with the improbable title, Assholes: A Theory. The author is Aaron James, Ph.D., whose excellent...
View ArticleWhy Meetings Never Accomplish Anything--And 3 Ways To Fix Them
There's a problem that's perplexed everyone from Miles Davis to Thomas Edison to LeBron James: how to make teams actually work. Writing in Behance's 99u blog, psychologist Christian Jarrett gathers...
View ArticleHow not to... win an argument
Once, I gave a friend some advice that changed her life. Or so she says. It was at university and we were in the bar, with everybody calming down after an emotional and largely stoned argument about,...
View ArticleFacts, Arguments and Politics
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: argument, Elections 2012, fact-checking, journalism Emotions drive politics. So why all the concern about...
View ArticlePhilosophy Is Not a Science
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: Philosophy, science For roughly 98 percent of the last 2,500 years of Western intellectual history,...
View Article3 Ways To Lend Decisiveness To Your Decisions
Humans are predictably irrational, readily sidetracked and constantly making decisions. And the more we make decisions in a given day, the worse we get at it. Instead of straining our brains over WHAT...
View ArticlePhilosophy — What’s the Use?
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: Ethics, Philosophy Almost every article that appears in The Stone provokes some comments from readers...
View ArticleAscent of the A-Word: Assholism, The First Sixty Years: A Review
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, The First Sixty Years By Geoffrey Nunberg PublicAffairs 272 pages Who Among Us Is an Asshole? By Stuart Whatley. Stuart Whatlehy is the HuffPost Senior Blog Editor and...
View ArticleOnly Assholes Think You Won’t Sleep With Them Unless They’re...
Heard this argument? Men don't really want to be domineering jerks. Guys play at being assholes only because women reward arrogant alpha males with sex. Women's sexual choices create bad male...
View ArticleOnly Assholes Say You Won’t Sleep With Them Unless They’re...
Heard this argument? Men don't really want to be domineering jerks. Guys play at being assholes only because women reward arrogant alpha males with sex. Women's sexual choices create bad male...
View ArticleIn Defense of (Conceptually Messy) Psychology
In a recent post at The Daily Beast, Will Wilkinson lambasts the field of psychology. His launching point is a recent paper by Nicholas Brown, Alan Sokal (of Sokal Hoax fame) and Harris Friedman that...
View ArticleORU Professor Releases "The Myths of Creativity" (Oral Roberts University)
(Source: Oral Roberts University) ORU Professor Releases "The Myths of Creativity" Oral Roberts University Assistant Professor of Management David Burkus released his first book titled, "The Myths of...
View ArticleHaidt’s Problem With Plato
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: Jonathan Haidt, Philosophy, Plato, psychology, reason This is the second of two posts dealing with...
View ArticleNewly Released from Jossey-Bass "The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About...
In his new book, David Burkus writes about how to get past the most common myths about creativity to design truly innovative strategies. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 18, 2013 Creativity tends to...
View ArticleBridging the Analytic-Continental Divide
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, Philosophy Many philosophers at leading American departments...
View ArticleThe Myths Of Creativity: Building A Better Mousetrap
If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. We’ve all heard that saying before. It’s become quite a popular maxim. It’s a catchy line, and it offers some hope to those...
View ArticleBusted: 10 Myths About Creativity
A new book shines a light on how people really come up with great ideas. Since ancient times people have held the notion that there's something mysterious, unpredictable, and even divine about where...
View ArticleOne Quick Way To Construct Better Criticism
Given poorly, criticism tends to lead to the criticized parties involved feeling like crap--and the criticizer looking like a jerk (or worse). If you're a psychologist, you'd call it reactance. If...
View ArticleHow Frank Ocean, Warren Buffett, And Other Badasses Deal With Soul-Sucking...
As we in the career hustle know, the moment you start doing awesome work, you become become vulnerable to people stoked on shaming others. An example: look at the torrent of heinousness that...
View Article3 Destructive Behaviors We Fall Back On When Arguing And How to Fix Them
Can anything good ever come from an argument? The best result is often a deadlock where both parties come to loggerheads and neither party is listening to the other and both become further entrenched...
View Article>Why So Many Tech Founders Who Are Jerks Become Insanely Rich And Successful
"Startup DNA" is the idea that the world's best entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, have some inherent talent they were born with that made them successful. The DNA is comprised of...
View ArticleWhy Tech Founders Who Act like Jerks Become Rich and Successful
Though bad behavior elicits criticism, it doesn't stop people from marveling at its related success. "Startup DNA" is the idea that the world's best entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, have...
View ArticleEverything You Think You Know About Thomas Edison Might Be Wrong
Thomas Edison did not try 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb, nor did he labor in a dusty workshop by himself. That's according to David Burkus, author of "The Myths of Creativity," who says...
View ArticlePhilosophy is not religion. It must not be taught that way
For A-level students in the UK, there is only one exam board that runs a real philosophy course. And that's about to be changed into yet another religious education course. For the last nine years, I...
View Article5 Ways To Reframe Your Failures
"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." -Thomas Watson Jr. As children, we are naturally inquisitive, curious, eager, and willing to try new things. When they don’t work...
View ArticleTen years without Derrida
When Jacques Derrida died ten years ago, all the major newspapers of the world remembered the Algerian-born thinker as the most important French philosopher since Jean-Paul Sartre. On the day of his...
View ArticleHow to Argue About Politics
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: Christians and Christianity (Des);, Philosophy, Presidential Election of 2012, Republican Party As a...
View ArticleBe Honest: Is Your Kid an Asshole?
It's the best of times; it's the worst of times, ergo: Kids are awesome; kids are dicks. Just like adults! A kid will hand you half of their brownie to share like some angelic little benevolent sugar...
View ArticleCan science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of...
View Article4 Fast Ways To Understand People Better
We're usually wrong about people. Mighty Google once surveyed tens of thousands of interviewers and interviewees, tracking the way one scored the other and then how the candidate eventually...
View ArticlePassover with the Bronfmans
Each December for the past fifteen years, the literary agent John Brockman has pulled out his Rolodex and asked a legion of top scientists and writers to ponder a single question: What scientific...
View Article‘Mommy Wars’ Redux: A False Conflict
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: feminism, motherhood, Parenting, Philosophy The “mommy wars” have flared up once again, sparked most recently...
View ArticleWhy So Many Tech Founders Who Are Jerks Become Insanely Rich And Successful
"Startup DNA" is the idea that the world's best entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, have some inherent talent they were born with that made them successful. The DNA is comprised of...
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