The current issue of Choice Magazine (the Australian “Consumer Reports”) has a report on cheddar cheese. They had five experts blindly rate 28 cheddar cheeses, ranging from your cloth- or wax-wrapped special deli cheddar at $50+ dollars per kilo down to the supermarket brands, sometimes less than $10 per kilo. Eyeballing the results table, it [...]
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On Buying Cheese
Posted in Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Skepticism on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Talk at Victorian Skeptics
Posted in Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Research, Skepticism on February 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone likely to be in Melbourne on Feb 19 is welcome to join the Victorian Skeptics for an informal talk: The abstract is Academic philosophers, like most professionals, think they’re pretty good at what they do. I’ll present some general reasons for scepticism on this score. Then I’ll focus on one particular respect in which [...]
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