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Poznan Cognitivist Society Conference

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 2 months ago: I’m on my way back from Poznan where the Polish Cognitivist Society Conference took place. The … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Psychology, Konrad's talks, Research, Superstition, Science, Rationality, bounded rationality, Cognition

AK, ¥ wrote 3 months ago: U.S.-India Ph.D./Postdoc fellowships in intracellular pathogens             For informat … more »

Tags: academic positions, PhD Positions, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, ICGEB, PH D

Updates on the move

Ms. Core wrote 3 months ago: So this week has been a little nuts and my vacation to science-land has been somewhat interrupted by … more »

Tags: grad school, Moving, Med School, Defense, LA, Apartments

Outline of In a Mirror, Darkly: How Superstitions Reflect Rationality1 comment

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 3 months ago: As part of my report on what I have done at the KLI over the last few months I had to write an outli … more »

Tags: bounded rationality, Cognitive Psychology, dual process reasoning, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, explanation, Herbert Simon, Philosophy, Psychology

Job Vacancy - Skills for PhDs and Research Staff

Elizabeth (Careers Service) wrote 4 months ago: If you hadn’t spotted it, here’s another vacancy for supporting PhDs and research staff … more »

Tags: PhD, Vacancies', Postgraduate, careers, Vacancy

France, cheeses and hyacinths ...

Admin wrote 4 months ago: … well … I just planted the hyacinths out that Jodi got from Kerri to communicate the ne … more »

Tags: Nature, Jodi and Stefan, Family, Fun, Food, spring, cheese, France, Sun

Back in Lublin

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 4 months ago: My initial eight-month stay at the KLI has come to an end. I am now back in Poland and teaching at t … more »

Tags: Research

Coming back to explanation

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 5 months ago: I find that in my research on superstition I keep coming back to the role played by explanations and … more »

Tags: Books, bounded rationality, Cognition, explanation, Herbert Simon, Research, Superstition

Informal intellectual exchange

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 5 months ago: There are a number of things that I’ve posted to this blog that, with the benefit of hind-sigh … more »

Tags: Research, Science

Trondheim talks

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 5 months ago: Gave the two talks in Trondheim. Here are some observations along with links to the PowerPoint files … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Psychology, Konrad's talks, Research, Superstition, Supernatural, Rationality, bounded rationality, dual process reasoning

ROGER ARLINER YOUNG: Lifelong Struggle of a Zoologist4 comments

thenewg wrote 6 months ago: Wish I could have known her personally. Only God knows what black women have been through in realizi … more »

Tags: Discrimination, New Orleans, ROGER ARLINER YOUNG Lifelong Struggle of a Zoologist, black women, single mother, Male chauvinism, A dream deferred, African American woman doctorate, Clifton forge Virginia

Cutting back research committments

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 8 months ago: Wanting to find out just how much I have to do apart from working on the manuscript I wrote up a lis … more »

Tags: Research

Reading, writing (and arithmetic)

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 8 months ago: I wrote a while ago that I had felt like I had fallen into a particular trap that most academics are … more »

Tags: Research

After the brown bag talk

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 9 months ago: I have now given the talk here at the KLI. The PowerPoint presentation is downloadable. Apart from t … more »

Tags: Konrad's talks, Superstition

New date for the brown bag

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 9 months ago: O.K. The new date for the brown bag at which I get to present my work on superstition is October 11t … more »

Tags: Konrad's talks

What is this thing called superstition? - part two

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 9 months ago: The thing with research is that what one thinks is fairly clear often turns out to be wrong-headed. … more »

Tags: Articles, Research, Superstition

Zusne & Jones Anomalistic Psychology - On heuristics

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski wrote 9 months ago: I am currently reading the last of the three classic texts on the psychology of superstition - Anoma … more »

Tags: Psychology, Books, Research, Superstition, Supernatural, bounded rationality

An index to assess lab productivity?

JK wrote 10 months ago: Prof. Peter Lawrence, a research scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambr … more »

Tags: Science, Research, BioMedical Research, Impact factor, Graduate School, PhD, Labs, productivity index

The road to academia: it’s not so simple

JK wrote 10 months ago: According to a recent report compiled by FASEB, “The number of academically employed scientists in … more »

Tags: Science, FaseB, survey, BioMedical Research, Career


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