Laith Al-Shawaf, Ph.D.
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Further Reading

A selection of essays and other pieces that I've found interesting, illuminating, thought-provoking, or fun.
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Science, Skepticism, & Critical Thinking
  1. The Relativity of Wrong
  2. The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
  3. The Dragon in My Garage
  4. A Psychologist Goes Undercover at the Woo Festival
  5. Can We Know the Universe?
  6. Inside Job

Explaining, Understanding, & the Unity of Knowledge
  1. The Importance of Conceptual Integration
  2. Foreword
  3. Strong Inference
  4. Why Doesn’t Personality Psychology Have a Replication Crisis?
  5. Theory-Testing in Psychology and Physics
  6. The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research
  7. Optimism and the Inquisition: The Extraordinary Life of Girolamo Cardano

​Mind, Language, & Intelligence
  1. A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test
  2. Science Fiction Words and Prototype Worlds
  3. Translating Nonsense
  4. An Epistemological Nightmare
  5. Politics and the English Language
  6. Fiction
  7. They’re Made Out of Meat
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Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
— Rosalind Franklin
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