Monthly Archives: May 2013

C. D. Broad: a bibliography

C. D. Broad (1887-1971)

Socius, lector, thesaurarii iunioris inter belli
angustias uice functus, moralis philosophiae in
academia professor disciplinae illius alias quoque
partes singulari acumine et diligentia lucidissime
tractauit. Non minus se ipsum quam alios nouerat.
In sermone plus salis quam fellis habuit. Sueciae
amorem prae se tulit. Huic collegio studuit opera
consiliis testamento sustinendo. Vita decessit
A.S.mcmlxxi suae aetatis lxxxiv

This bibliography is based on (1) C. Lewy’s ‘Writings of C. D. Broad, to the end of July 1959’, in Paul A. Schilpp (ed.) The philosophy of C. D. Broad, New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1959, pp. 833-852; (2) Andrew Chrucky’s Works by C. D. Broad; and (3) my own research online and at various British libraries.  It is my best attempt to make Broad’s writings freely available on the web. Corrections and additions are warmly welcome.

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Latest update: 9th March, 2017

My personality

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Over the years, I’ve had many conversations about personality psychology with various friends. In some of those exchanges, these friends expressed curiosity about my own personality (as I did about theirs). Accordingly, I decided to post here the results of a Big Five personality test I took some time ago, so that I can refer folks to this post whenever the topic comes up in future conversations.

Openness: 88% (88th percentile)

Conscientiousness: 15% (0.2nd percentile)

Extraversion: 38% (11th percentile)

Agreeableness: 55% (28th percentile)

Neuroticism: 70% (95th percentile)

If I had unlimited powers of self-modification, I would make myself much more conscientious and much less neurotic, and somewhat more agreeable and extroverted.

Latest update: 15th April, 2014

Anki decks by LessWrong users

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In a recent LessWrong post, Qiaochu Yuan noted that “various mnemonic techniques like memory palaces, along with spaced repetition, seem to more or less solve the problem of memorization.” The list below is an attempt to compile all existing Anki decks created by Less Wrong users, in the hope that they will be of help to others in memorizing the corresponding material. (Anki is arguably the most popular spaced repetition software.)  If you know of a deck not included here, please mention it in the comments section and I’ll add it to the list. Thanks! Please note that I have excluded some of my own Anki decks, which may not be of interest to member of the LessWrong community; all such decks may be found here. Continue reading →

Latest update: 10th December, 2015

The Gift

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by Ian Parker

The New Yorker, vol. 80, no. 21 (August 2, 2004), pp. 54-63

Last summer, not long after Zell Kravinsky had given almost his entire forty-five-million-dollar real-estate fortune to charity, he called Barry Katz, an old friend in Connecticut, and asked for help with an alibi. Would Katz call Kravinsky’s wife, Emily, in Philadelphia, and say that the two men were about to take a weeklong trip to Katz’s ski condominium in Vermont? This untruth would help Kravinsky do something that did not have his wife’s approval: he would be able to leave home, check into the Albert Einstein Medical Center, in Philadelphia, for a few days, and donate a kidney to a woman whose name he had only just learned. Continue reading →

Latest update: 16th May, 2014