Being Wrong - Kathryn Schulz [181]
David Hume. Hume lays out the problem of induction in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford University Press, 2006).
“the poverty of the stimulus” (FN). Chomsky describes this problem in his Rules and Representations (Columbia University Press, 2005).
Thomas Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (The University of Chicago Press, 1996). The anecdote about Chinese and Western astronomers appears on p. 116.
As Alan Greenspan pointed out. http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20081024163819.pdf
“interpreting increased violence in Iraq.” George Packer, “History Boys,” the New Yorker, June 11, 2007.
The NASA higher-ups responsible for the…Columbia. Henry Petroski, Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design (Princeton University Press, 2006), 166.
“The greatest impediment and aberration of the human understanding.” I first stumbled on this quotation in Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 99. The line originally appears in Bacon’s Novum Organum, Peter Urbach and John Gibson, ed. and trans. (Open Court, 1994), 60.
Vesalius finally showed otherwise. Jastrow, 15.
Pliny the Elder. Howard M. Parshley, “Error in Zoology,” in Jastrow, 203–204.
(As a European Communist once said). Whittaker Chambers, Witness (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1952), 79.
Albert Speer. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (Simon and Schuster, 1997), 376.
“I had, during many years, followed a golden rule.” Quoted in Larry R. Squire, “Biological Foundations of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory,” in Schacter, ed., 197.
CHAPTER 7 OUR SOCIETY
I have drawn on the following sources for the history of women’s suffrage in Switzerland: Lee Ann Banaszak, Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage (Princeton University Press, 1996), a comparison of the suffrage movements in the United States and Switzerland; personal communications with Banaszak (who, among other things, supplied the joke about the German, Swiss, and American kids) and with Regina Wecker, a professor of women’s history and gender history at the University of Basel in Switzerland; and contemporary news accounts of the Swiss situation, including Michael L. Hoffman, “Swiss Suffrage: The Men Have It, But—Being Swiss—Still Deny It to Their Women,” the New York Times, Feb. 6. 1955; “Swiss Males Deny Federal Vote to Women, But Yield a Canton,” the New York Times, Feb. 2, 1959; Edwin Newman, “Can 655,000 Swissmen Be Wrong?” the New York Times, Aug. 30, 1959; Thomas J. Hamilton, “Swiss Woman Given the Federal Vote,” the New York Times, Feb. 8, 1971; and “Eight Women Win in Swiss Election,” Thomas J. Hamilton, the New York Times, Nov. 2, 1971.
The story of Abdul Rahman comes from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, USCIRF Annual Report 2008—Afghanistan, May 2008 (available online at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4855699b46.html) and from the following news articles: Kim Barker, “Afghan Man Faces Death for Being a Christian,” Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2006; Tim Albone, “Afghan Faces Death Penalty for Christian Faith,” the London Times, March 20, 2006; Sanjoy Majumder, “Mood Hardens Against Afghan Convert,” BBC News, March 24, 2006; Abdul Waheed Wafa and David Rohde, “Kabul Judge Rejects Calls to End Trial of Afghan Convert,” the New York Times, March 24, 2006; “Clerics Call for Christian Convert’s Death Despite Western Outrage,” Fox News, The Associated Press, March 23, 2006; Rachel Morarjee, “Abdul Rahman’s Family Values,” Time, March 29, 2006; and Syed Saleem Shahzad, “Losing Faith in Afghanistan,” Asia Times, March 25, 2006.
Women were enfranchised