Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

Out of the Crisis

By Scott J. Pearson | June 11, 2018September 24, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

by W. Edwards DemingCopyright 1982. Deming’s Fourteen Points Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis…

Politics

The Age of Reason

By Scott J. Pearson | June 9, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Thomas PaineOriginally published 1794 in the setting of the French Revolution. Thomas Paine, the author of the famed Common Sense in 1776, extends his critique of Western culture from government to religion in this treatise. In it, he appeals for Deism based upon Nature instead of a religion based upon revelation. Like his contention that originally humans were free without a monarchy, he contends that humans originally had no Word of God and thus relied…

Science

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

By Scott J. Pearson | June 7, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Thomas S. KuhnThird EditionCopyright 1962, 1970, 1996. This is a book that I’ve wanted to read ever since college. I was reading it when I started medical school, but studies soon overtook me. It’s a history of science. Rather, it’s a philosophical theory on how science progresses through history. From Newton and chemistry to Darwin and quantum mechanics, it tells the story of how science moves forward. This progress is, as Kuhn tells it,…