Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, this week you may have a lot of time on your hands. Here are four videos from two SPI Fellows to keep you company!
SPI Fellow A. C. Grayling and says that critical thinking requires intellectual courage, and that students should have some. And if you need a last minute gift, how about the electronic version of his latest book, The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times, about intellectual courage in a time of war and conflict.
He┬áis Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St. AnneÔÇÖs College, Oxford, and┬áVice President of the British Humanist Association and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. He┬áwas a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.
He recently spoke at the Cambridge Union entitled “Culture and Anarchy” and a fan has compiled a “best of AC Grayling” video for your holiday amusement.
SPI Fellow Elizabeth Loftus is a cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory who gave a TED Talk called How Reliable is Your Memory? and she contributed an article about the accuracy of a witnesses’s memory during a criminal trial to the SPI World Future Guide 2016.
In 2002, she was ranked 58th in the Review of General PsychologyÔÇÖs list of the 100 most influential psychological researchers of the 20th century, and was the highest ranked woman on the list. She is also a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical InquiryÔÇÖs Executive Council. Also see her recent video interview with Closer to Truth about the power of the subconscious.