Library
Dear Reader,
what we call a library here isn’t a library in the classic sense. It is more a repository, a collection of pieces, selected by us and others, by different motivations, from various perspectives.
What the texts have in common is their focus on critical thinking in science, in the sciences and on the system of doing science. Published in highly respected journals or as marginalia in the local newspaper they found their way into “42”.
It is our ambition to share the texts and make them accessible for you, even if you lost the printed version by wrapping your recent catch at the fish monger. Because of copyright restriction we will not be able to make the texts downloadable for you (Except for some few). But we link you to the precise location where to find it.
Thus, providing the sources, we hope you can benefit from it in your own critical thinking discussions and quote in lectures, seminars and panels.
The Critical-Thinking-Team
"42" articles
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Matthias Binswanger: Was die Wissenschaft weiss und was sie glaubt (Neue Zu?rcher Zeitung, 15.09.2016) external pageLINKcall_made
Eduard Kaeser: Googeln statt Wissen – Das postfaktische Zeitalter (Neue Zu?rcher Zeitung, 22.08.2016) external pageLINKcall_made
Reglement der EDK über die Anerkennung von gymnasialen Maturit?tsausweisen (MAR) (14.06.2007) external pageLINKcall_made
Richard Ernst: The Follies of Citation Indices ans Academic Ranking Lists (Chimia 64, 2010) external pageLINKcall_made
Martin Stahl, Sabine Baier: How many molecules does it take to tell a Story? (ChemMedChem, 27.03.2015) external pageLINKcall_made
Ludwik Fleck: Das Problem einer Theorie des Erkennens (From: Ludwik Fleck: Denkstile und Tatsachen. Suhrkamp Verlag. (First published in Polish language in 1936))
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Matthias Daum: Und was ist mit unseren Problemen? (Die Zeit Nr. 26/2017) external pageLINKcall_made
Eric T. Hansen: Lernt endlich kritisch denken! (Die Zeit online, 08.07.2014) external pageLINKcall_made
Yuval Noah Harari: In big data we trust (Financial Times Magazine, 27.08.2016) external pageLINKcall_made
Christie Aschwanden: Science Isn’t Broken (Five Thirty Eight, 19.08.2015) external pageLINKcall_made
Daniel Sarewitz: Saving Science (The New Atlantis, 16.08.2016) external pageLINKcall_made
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Peter Bieri: Wie w?re es, gebildet zu sein? Festrede an der P?dagogischen Hochschule Bern, 04.11.2005 external pageLinkcall_made
Roland Reichenbach: In der Schule wird nicht gekauft, sondern gelernt. NZZ, 24.11.2016 external pageLinkcall_made
Otto Kruse: Kritisches Denken als Leitziel der Lehre. die hochschule 1/2010 external pageLinkcall_made
Stefan Schmitt et al.: Bis zum Besserwissen. Die Zeit 19/2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Dimitris Grammenos: Abba-Dabba-Ooga-Booga-Hooje-Gooje-Yabba-Dabba-Doo: Stupidity, Ignorance & Nonsense as Tools for Nurturing Creative Thinking. Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas. CHI EA’14, 2014. external pageLinkcall_made
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Christian Weber: Forschungspolitik: Limitiert die W?rter! Süddeutsche Zeitung, 03.11.2017. external pageLinkcall_made
Stephen Jay Gould: The Median isn’t the message. external pageLinkcall_made
Peter Laudenbach: Und immer an den Hirschfaktor denken! brandeins 04/2016 external pageLinkcall_made
Paula Stephan et al.: Blinkered by bibliometrics. Nature, Vol. 544, 27-04-2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Timothy Gowers: The End of an error? The Times Literary Supplement, 24-10-2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Werner Heisenberg: Gespr?che über das Verh?ltnis von Naturwissenschaft und Religion. Physikalische Bl?tter, 26. Jg., Heft 7, Juli 1970. external pageLinkcall_made
Bernard Dixon: Why Do Truffles Smell So Delicious? Microbe, Vol. 10, Number 12, 2015 external pageLinkcall_made
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Elisabeth von Thadden: Wissenschaft: Wir k?nnen das nicht verantworten. Die Zeit 24/2015 external pageLinkcall_made
Tobias Rosefeldt: Für eine Universit?t ohne Mitarbeiter. Akademie Aktuell, 03-2015. external pageLinkcall_made
Dawn Bennett et al.: Teaching-only roles could markt he end of your academic career. world.edu, 28-03-2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Shane M. Hanlon: Science politicians: a new path in non-academic careers. blogs.agu.org, 26-01-2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Max Weber: Wissenschaft als Beruf. in: Gesammelte Aufs?tze zur Wissenschaftslehre. Hrsg. J. Winckelmann. Tübingen 1985, 6. Auflage. (Erstver?ffentlichung des Textes: 1919) external pageLinkcall_made
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Robinson Meyer: Why it’s okay to call it ?Fake News‘. The Atlantic, 09-03-2018 external pageLinkcall_made
David M.J. Lazer et al.: The science of fake news. Science, Vol. 359, Issue 6380, 09-03-2018 external pageLinkcall_made
American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Public Trust in Vaccines: Defining a Research Agenda. A Report oft he AAAS, 2014. external pageLinkcall_made
Michael Hagner: Trump offenbart den Nutzen der Geisteswissenschaften. NZZ, 10.02.2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Milosz Matuschek: Der Homo facebookiensis. NZZ, 27.03.2018 external pageLinkcall_made
Wolfram Klingler: Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult. motherboard.vice.com, 11-10-2017 external pageLinkcall_made
Claus Priesner: Die Kaffeef?lscher. Kultur & Technik, 40, 3/2016 external pageLinkcall_made
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Robert C. Bishop: Reduction, Emergence and Critical Thinking. Essay written for the CTETH-Reader ?42“, May 2018. Link
Antonio Regalado: A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that’s “100 percent fatal”. MIT Technology Review, 13-03-2018 external pageLinkcall_made
Jacques Dubochert: Why is it so dif?cult to accept Darwin’s theory of evolution? Bioessays 33: 240–242, 2011 external pageLinkcall_made
Rainer Kuhlen: Wissens?konomie und Wissens?kologie zusammen denken. In: Silke Helfrich und Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung (Hg.): Commons: Für eine neue Politik jenseits von Markt und Staat (2012) external pageLinkcall_made
Martin Etzrodt: Decentralizing Science. Elephant in the Lab, 13-02-2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Paul Barach: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber: The Monster Who Fed The World. medium.com, 02-08-2016 external pageLinkcall_made
Thomas T. Hills: Does my algorithm have a mental-health problem? aeon.co, 26-03-2018 external pageLinkcall_made
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Holly Cave: From STEM to STEAM: The art of creative engineering. PE Magazine, 10 Nov 2017. external pageLinkcall_made
Kieran Healy: Fuck Nuance. Sociological Theory, Vol. 35(2), 2017, p. 118-127. external pageLinkcall_made
Thomas Ribi: Wozu wissen? Lieber googeln! NZZ, 05. Oktober 2016. external pageLinkcall_made
Adrian Lobe: Fragen ankreuzen kann jeder, auch ein Computer: Wenn Bots wissenschaftliche Daten schaffen. NZZ, 07. September 2018.
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Max Born et al.: The Russell-Einstein-Manifesto. Issued in London, 9 July 1955, aus: DJF-Quarterly 01/2004. external pageLinkcall_made
Leonard E. Read: I, Pencil. 2006, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York 10533, ISBN 1-57246-209-4. external pageLinkcall_made
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Atul Gawande: The Mistrust of Science. The New Yorker, 10. June 2016. external pageLinkcall_made
Effy Vayena und Marcello Ienca: Es geht nicht nur um Datenschutz. NZZ, 27. March 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Publish and don’t be damned. Economist, 23. June 2016. external pageLinkcall_made
Paul E. Smaldino and Richard McElreath: The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society open Science, 2. July 2017. external pageLinkcall_made
Sabine Hossenfelder: Yes, women in science still have a disadvantage. BackReAction – Blogspot, 11. October 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Axel Meyer: Diversit?t z?hlt mehr als Wahrheit. NZZ, 12. September 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Ed Yong: Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird . The Atlantic, 8. January 2019. external pageLinkcall_made
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Eduard Kaeser: Vorsicht Tunnelblick! NZZ, 2. February 2019. external pageLinkcall_made
Konrad Paul Liessmann: Das Verschwinden des Wissens. NZZ, 15. September 2014. external pageLinkcall_made
Konstantin Kakaes: How Gobbledygook Ended Up in Respected Scientific Journals. Future Tense, 27. February 2014. external pageLinkcall_made
Robert W. Yeh et al.: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial. the bmj, 13. December 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
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Alexander Oettl: Honour the helpful. Nature, 27. September 2012. external pageLinkcall_made
Stasa Milojevic et al.: Changing demographics of scientific careers: The rise of the temporary workforce. PNAS, 11. December 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Olga Khazan: The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM. The Atlantic, 18. February 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Girma Zawdie: Knowledge exchange and the Third Mission of universities. Industry and Higher Education, 24, June 2010. external pageLinkcall_made
League of European Research Universities: Productive interactions: societal impact of academic research in the knowledge society. LERU position paper, March 2017. external pageLinkcall_made
Eileen Parkes: Scientific progress is built on failure. Nature, 10. January 2019. external pageLinkcall_made
Fritz Breithaupt und Martin Kolmar: Wo Experten z?gern. Die Zeit, 5. July 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Bastiaan t Rutjens: What makes people distrust science?. Aeon, 28. May 2018. external pageLinkcall_made
Reading recommendations
Luc Saner: Studium generale: Auf dem Weg zu einem allgemeinen Teil der Wissenschaften (Springer Spektrum, 2013) external pageLinkcall_made
Atul Gawande: Why Doctors hate their computers (The New Yorker, 12.11.2018) external pageLinkcall_made