How To Get Out of a Rut: Perspective Matters

Long Beach, MS after Hurricane Katrina

We get into ruts for all kinds of reasons – busy schedules to extremes like natural disasters. Sometimes the way we think about things can help us get out of a rut. I want to consider the the differences between the way we look at things in the West and the way people in the… Continue reading How To Get Out of a Rut: Perspective Matters

Are you a scientist? On Citizen Science and Experimental Philosophy

Are you a scientist? Interdisciplinary research brings in collaborators from different backgrounds. Each scientist approaches a problem with a different toolkit of experience and a different perspective. When we think of scientists we tend to think of a solitary activity – one person in a lab pipetting some sort of liquid from one container to… Continue reading Are you a scientist? On Citizen Science and Experimental Philosophy