Race day

06:30 start on Deep Water Bay race day. Not a clue what the day holds other than some hard paddling followed by beer at 15:00 or so.

The argumentative theory of reason

Another new one to add to the list of books for psychologists. The argumentative theory argues (of course) that we developed reasoning to help us evaluate other people’s arguments and to try to convince them of ours. Not for searching after the truth, which...

Books for psychologists

The books and journal articles all psychologists should read has a lot of interesting sounding reads. I particularly like it when people say: “I read the original and realised I’d been misquoting / mis-referencing it for years”.