Reading David Hume's works is an enjoyment per se. Nothing could be more fun and exciting than to read our David Hume armed only with his pen brought down the Goliaths, the Goliaths of philosophy then.

He, however, reputed to have the sharpest of intellect and yet was ignored, misunderstood and misrepresented during his lifetime.

It was some thirty years after his death when another equally brilliant philosopher Immanuel Kant took Hume seriously or in Kant's words, "…awoken me from my dogmatic slumber." And it was from this awakening that the world gave Hume his overdue recognition and fame.

Giant of Philosophy: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

It’s no surprise that Immanuel Kant had dominated much of the European thought in the nineteen century. His original contributions to almost all areas of philosophy have had profound impact on almost every philosophy movements that followed him. Even his opponents couldn’t but recognise his influence.

Book Review:

Title: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1970, 2nd ed. Chicago.

Despite written in the 60s, reading it now still pays off tremendously in some unexpected way. Hence, together with other reasons unknown, I decided to write a review on it. Allow me to borrow Kuhn’s concept of paradigm: we may be reading the same stuff but we may not interpret them similarly. Perhaps, you from your own paradigmatic perspective can offer better and alternative insights than I can from my paradigm.

An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Critical thinking or informal logic--its jargonish equivalence--is the process of "reading between the line". Rather than accepting literally the stuffs spooned to us, we filter out the arguments from the information, ‘X-ray’ the arguments and examine them in their skeletal logic.

Why critical thinking is important?

Every day, minute and second, we are relentlessly showered by information: information which we need and don’t. Television and radio are just some of the prime culprits. With the advent of Internet, things seem verging out of control. And, of course, not forgetting the incessant rumbling of those around us--employers, friends and relatives.

Almost all the time, these information we received are embedded with arguments; the purpose, if you are still unaware of, is to get us to take a stance, evoke a response, make a decision and so forth. Why we should buy shoes of this particular brand? Why our government believe more foreign talents are good for our country? Why US think that bombing Kosovo is justified. (Just to name a few examples.) Or as the old saying goes: