Monthly Archives: October 2016
Week 7: Scale & Causal Relations
Given the break from abstraction provided by week 6’s review of exemplars, we dove back into abstraction for the final two weeks of the Theory section of the course. For week seven we first covered the concept of scale (usually … Continue reading
Week 6: Exemplars
For week 6 of the Scientific Inquiry–Theory & Inference seminar we wanted to put some flesh on the abstract skeletal structure we had covered thus far in the course. So we had them read a bunch of work that does some … Continue reading
What is knowing, what is science, what is theory?
This is the third in a series of guest posts by Nate Monroe. I’ve been under water for a few weeks, and that’s left me five weeks behind in my new blogging enterprise. So, in an effort to get back … Continue reading
“Gracious” v “Sore” Election Losers, US Stylee
My friend, and former colleague at UC, Riverside, Shaun Bowler has a post over at Vox that discusses the important role of concession speeches by losing politicians that affirm the legitimacy of the process. Adam Przeworski famously put the issue … Continue reading
Meet Rape Culture: Progress and the Long Road Ahead
That Donald Trump is the perfect spokesperson to spread awareness that rape culture has been a part of the human experience since recorded history is not terribly surprising. Indeed, the only positive thing I can take from his successful run … Continue reading
Will Opines 