Recent Blog Posts
- David Canter considers whether ‘all-purpose’ police forces a no longer fit for purpose. The post Do We Need the Police? appeared first on Social Science Space.
- David Canter considers some implications of ChatGPT and what it tells us about real intelligence, general, artificial or otherwise. The post The Trouble with Bootlaces: Treading on Artificial and General […]
- David Canter considers the strange phenomena of Russians believing Putin’s propaganda. The post When Ignorance is Reassuring appeared first on Social Science Space.
- David Canter considers the sorts of psychological processes that may be shaping Vladimir Putin’s actions. The post How Does Putin Think? appeared first on Social Science Space.
- David Canter follows his concern that psychologists are losing contact with people by considering how computers are presented as replacements for human ‘intelligence’. This ignores the importance of in situ […]
- David Canter discusses the alienation between people that is being generated by a combination of fears of interpersonal contact and the power of the internet. Is a new world emerging […]
- My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the […] The post If Music Be… appeared first on Social […]
- David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely. The post The Irrationality of Risk Calculations appeared first on Social Science Space.
- David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst. The post The Comfort of Strangers appeared […]
- David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts. The post When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss appeared first on Social […]