Re: morality and religion

2001-04-12 Thread Michael Ofsowitz
Tom Timmerman wrote, And finally, the volume of social services delivered publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately. I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered services were funded by passing a collection plate or staffed through volunteer

Re: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread Deborah Hume
Maybe it is too early in the morning and I'm feeling a bit prickly, but this certainly rubbed me the wrong way. Leaving aside for the moment the possibility that there are some valid critiques of traditional western scientific methodology, how is it that irrationality, invalid inference, and

RE: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread Paul Brandon
At 8:18 AM -0500 4/12/01, Paul Smith wrote: some "deconstructive intelligence", "invalid inference intelligence", and "tolerance for logical contradiction intelligence" have apparently rubbed off on me. Yellow laundry soap will take it off. * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

RE: morality and religion

2001-04-12 Thread Paul Brandon
At 4:49 PM -0500 4/11/01, Timmerman, Thomas wrote: Paul Brandon wrote: And finally, the volume of social services delivered publically is an order of magnitude greater than that delivered privately. I wonder how these would compare if the publicly-delivered services were funded by passing a

curious (was RE: darwinian slip and a thought - psych-free)

2001-04-12 Thread David
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Charles M. Huffman went: I am curious about the affiliation of: Rick Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am curious about your reason for having cc'd this to TIPS instead of simply asking Rick. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The I-C grade connection

2001-04-12 Thread Dennis Goff
Melvyn, I agree with you, I _like_ the fact that the W remains on our transcripts even if the student retakes the course because it honestly represents the student's academic career. I was responding to the post that started this thread stated that W's were removed by later course work. Sorry

FW: Media Alert Psychology Series, 4/16 9pm

2001-04-12 Thread Cubby, Christine
Thought some of you might be interested in this -- Chris Christine Cubby Director, Governance and Communications Education Directorate (202)336-5961 fax (202)216-7620 750 1st Street NE Washington, DC 20002-4242 -Original Message- From: Phil Zimbardo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread Paul Smith
Deborah Hume wrote: Maybe it is too early in the morning and I'm feeling a bit prickly, but this certainly rubbed me the wrong way. Leaving aside for the moment the possibility that there are some valid critiques of traditional western scientific methodology, how is it that irrationality,

Re: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread Paul Brandon
At 9:19 AM -0500 4/12/01, Deborah Hume wrote: Maybe it is too early in the morning and I'm feeling a bit prickly, but this certainly rubbed me the wrong way. Leaving aside for the moment the possibility that there are some valid critiques of traditional western scientific methodology, how is it

RE: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread jim clark
Hi On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Paul Smith wrote: I think that even _that_ is too generous. After all, most of us are "often irrational". What is particularly disturbing about the postmodernists is the notion that there is _nothing wrong_ with irrationality - that in fact rationality has no

Re: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread Deborah Hume
Paul, My apologies -- I recognized the sarcasm but misinterpreted it -- I am sorry! (maybe it WAS too early in the morning for me to be responding to a post!) Deb Hume You do understand that I was being sarcastic about that very point, right? I couldn't agree with you more, and I meant my

General and Cognitive Psych software sources

2001-04-12 Thread Deborah Briihl
I am using CogLab this term and I like it. The students have to pay for an access code (I think about $10 - check with your rep). You can't modify any of the experiments, and the data is kind of difficult to access (though, after using Mellab disks, it's much easier that putting disks in and

Role of Faculty in Administration

2001-04-12 Thread Sue Frantz
Hi all, Our faculty are considering the possibility of lobbying for the restructuring of our role in our administrative structure. I'm wondering how your faculty are organized and what decision-making power or advisory power you have. URLs to the appropriate policies and procedures webpages

RE: Faith-based TIPS?

2001-04-12 Thread Paul Smith
Deb - Not a problem - I really SHOULD know better than to use sarcasm in a post to a public list, just because people are in so many different states of mind when they read the posts (for example, I just got home from a major league baseball game, and am probably not nearly at my best). I