Recently, we’ve taken a detailed look at our everyday gullibility and our susceptibility to error and illusion. The shortcomings we have discovered prove we are poor judges, on the whole, and so in order to operate as effectively as possible in this unjust universe, we need techniques to aid us. In this post, we will start with a little something I call sceptical zeteticism (but not very well after a few beers). Mind prisons If we have learnt only one thing from our explorati

I am sure you would agree that in matters of fairness and justice, our own pleasure or personal advantage should have no bearing on the case before us - right? We should be rigorous in establishing the facts, perspicacious in our assessment of those facts, coolly detached and even-handed in making our judgments – this is why Lady Justice, immortalized in statue outside many a courtroom, wears that blindfold. Recently, we have been talking about the problematic nature of justi