Conservative Tendency

In the light of some recent discussions on this site ( here and here ), I thought it might be appropriate for me to make a short statement ...

I have always disliked the idea that there is some kind of dividing line between the human sciences and the so-called 'hard sciences...

A reviewer wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Nassim Nicholas Taleb "is an eclectic scholar and a rude man." Yes and yes. He is al...

Last night, as I was walking on a footpath by the river, I felt something softish roll under my left heel. It was a juvenile mouse (or some ...

"Half the time," writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The black swan* , " I am hyperconservative in the conduct of my own...

Is reality ultimately based on randomness? How one answers this question ultimately colors one's outlook (I suggest) in deep and subtle ...

Moralizing is a perilous business. It's all too easy to convey not just a moral point, but a sense of moral superiority or self-righteou...