Tag Archives: Joe Bentley

Wicked or Tame?

 July 10, 2014 Problems are either wicked or tame concluded Horst Rittle and Melvin Webber in the early 1970’s, an insight that has turned out not only to be interesting, but central to all attempts to solve problems.  Whether a problem is one or the other determines everything that follows:  what should be done, by… Read More »

“Going Meta…”

“Anything you can do I can do meta…”  Many will recognize this as a take-off of the song Anything you can do I can do better, from the 1946 Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun.  The quote appears in a recent book by philosopher Daniel Dennett titled Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking  (2013)  Dennett… Read More »