If my seminar yesterday had been a scientific experiment, I'd be redoing it from scratch. At very short notice, I had to radically change the content, and amount of material, leaving some parts of my post-delivery questionnaire irrelevant. Revised room...

In previous correspondence with James Atherton, I was described as a positivist. Popper's critique of science is an attack on the positivist view, and most arts graduates are under the mistaken impression that Popper's view is definitive. Hence to call...

Another observation yesterday, of a group of first-year Chemical Engineering students who were set a multi-day exercise intended to assess their level of engineering understanding, where "understanding" means something slightly more complicated than an...

A few years back, I was diagnosed with cancer. If this ever happens to you (especially if it is essentially untreatable as mine was), be assured that all sorts of people will suggest that you abandon faith in rationality, and turn to "alternative...

I have updated my "Barrier to Learning" post for anyone interested in how that panned out. I'll not interrupt the flow of the blog to go back to this issue again.