Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Levels of disagreement

A wonderful essay "How to Disagree" came my way from Kapil Paranjape via Rahul Basu. It's here. In the spirit of my two previous blogs, I would like this to be compulsory (or at least recommended) reading for everyone who participates in committee meetings, and certainly for all faculty members.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 26, 2008 at 12:54 PM

    Just to underline that I was merely the messenger!

    The essay is by Paul Graham.

    Kapil.

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  2. Rahul BasuJune 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM

    While I agree with the spirit of Paul Graham's post, just to turn some of his examples around, I would have little patience with trying to carefully and systematically prove the errors in the arguments of Intelligent Design or say, Flat Earth advocates.

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