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August 27, 2014

What Constitutes Compelling Evidence, and for Whom? — B. Alan Wallace

The following post is by B. Alan Wallace, most recently the author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice and Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. For more,...

August 26, 2014

Interview with H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth

“Science is not likely to produce an ethical basis for proper conduct in cases in which strangers in distant locations are damaged by an individual’s actions involving spending resources, extirpating species, or polluting air and ocean. Help in these matters...

August 26, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Vital Conversations, Women in the Mosque, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients Dennis Rosen Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice Marion Holmes Katz Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation (Now...

August 26, 2014

An Interview with H. H. Shugart

The following is an interview with H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job: nn Question: Science and religion are often seen as antagonistic and while you are not interested in “reconciling”...

August 25, 2014

An Interview with B. Alan Wallace

“Buddhism … proposes experiments in consciousness through the rigorous practices of meditation that enable the first-person investigation of the mind and its role in nature to fully complement the third-person methods of modern science.”—B. Alan Wallace The following is an...

August 22, 2014

Stiglitz and Greenwald's Introduction to Creating a Learning Society

Read the introduction to CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald.

August 21, 2014

Arrow and the Impossibility Theorem, by Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen’s essay from The Arrow Impossibility Theorem: “Arrow and the Impossibility Theorem.”

August 21, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Value of Publishing Translation

Read “The Value of Publishing Translation,” a short essay written by John O’Brien, the publisher of Dalkey Archive Press.

August 21, 2014

The Origins of the Impossibility Theorem, by Kenneth J. Arrow

Read “The Origins of the Impossibility Theorem,” an essay by Kenneth J. Arrow included in Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen’s The Arrow Impossibility Theorem.

August 20, 2014

Kenneth J. Arrow comments on José Scheinkman's Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles

Read Kenneth J. Arrow’s Commentary on José Scheinkman’s Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles.

August 20, 2014

Joseph Stiglitz introduces José A. Scheinkman's Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles

“Much of the research of the past forty years has focused on assessing market behavior in the presence of rational expectations, where individuals use all available information to make inferences about the future, and in which all individuals share the...

August 19, 2014

Joseph Stiglitz discusses the creation of The Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

Read an excerpt from the preface of CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY, in which Joseph Stiglitz discusses the importance of Kenneth Arrow’s work, and the creation of the Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series.

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