This spring, The Logical Leap will be a required text in a course on scientific method at Western Carolina University. And the book has already been used in a critical thinking course at Augsburg College in Minnesota.
At Claremont Graduate University, I remember taking a philosophy of science course taught by a Kuhnian (a professor who believed that scientific knowledge is merely a subjective, social construction). He made a strange confession to me one day. In the past, he said, he enjoyed shocking and upsetting the students with skeptical arguments. But now, he explained, the students are already skeptics, so they just shrug and yawn at his arguments. It wasn’t fun for him anymore.
I’m hoping that my book will put the fun back into such courses. Let the students read both The Logical Leap and Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The debates should be lively.
I listened to skeptical philosophy profs for four years. And, while I enjoyed showing a rational alternative to them, I’m jealous of the students who will study your book.
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