We were supposed to meet on the campus of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, the first week of April 2020. Of course we didn't. That was when--surely you've not forgotten?--everything was closing down, academic conferences no exception. The gathering in question was the triennial conference … [Read more...]
Arguments or Horse Laughs? – The Debates of Martin Gardner and Marcello Truzzi
Dana Richards (ed.) Dear Martin, Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skepticism. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2017. "Ben Azzai ... used to say: Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have … [Read more...]