Woodrow Wilson’s Psychological Type

Articles on Wilson Provided by this Site: Why Wilson Is ISTJ – In this article the site administrators explain their current reasons for why they think Woodrow Wilson is ISTJ. Of the three articles provided here, only this article should be taken to represent the official views and type assessments of the site.  Why Wilson Is[…] Continue Reading

Why Woodrow Wilson Is INTJ, Part 2

Dylan Shapiro is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. Shapiro previously alerted us to the possibility that Wilson was INTJ (and not INFJ as we originally thought). In this article, Shapiro furthers his case for Wilson as an INTJ. Shapiro originally wrote an article on why Wilson is INTJ with one of the site admins[…] Continue Reading

The Pre-Socratics as a Dance of Personalities, Part 2

By Ryan Smith What would you say if I told you that Einstein, Darwin, Bohr, Popper, Heisenberg, and Hubble (of Hubble Telescope fame) were all part of the same stageplay some roughly 2500 years ago? You would think it was impossible because these people weren’t even born back then. But then, maybe it is possible.[…] Continue Reading

Dharma Combat in Zen

“A lecture on Zen is always something in the nature of a hoax because it really does deal with a domain of experience that cannot be talked about.” – Alan Watts “Many of the Zen anecdotes … not only border on the grotesque but are right there in the middle of it, and sound like the most crashing[…] Continue Reading

Hayek’s Epistemology of the Social Sciences

By Ryan Smith The Austrian Nobel laureate, economist, philosopher, and social theorist F.A. Hayek is perhaps best known for his work on economics. But he was also, in turn, a pioneer in the fields of epistemology and psychology. In this article I attempt to present a few of his points on those topics. The starting[…] Continue Reading

Pierce Presents: ESFJ

Michael Pierce is a video maker and contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Pierce’s piece represents his own insights and type assessments and not necessarily those of the site. Still, we very much enjoy his work and are pleased to be able to share it with our visitors. By Michael[…] Continue Reading

The Pre-Socratics as a Dance of Personalities, Part 1

“I have discovered the greatest majesty which the Greeks are and were. The Path from Thales to Socrates is something incredible.” – Friedrich Nietzsche[1] By Ryan Smith As the Pre-Socratics are the very first philosophers, a lot of people instinctively assume that they must also be primitive and crude in their thought. This is, however,[…] Continue Reading

The Mechanics of Te and Ti

By Ryan Smith and Rachel Wood The Thinking and Feeling functions are both “rational,” in the sense that they are driven to come to conclusions about psychic contents. Unlike the perceiving functions, Sensation and Intuition, where the focus is rather on perceiving information, the Thinking and Feeling functions press home to arrive at rationalized conclusions about the world.[…] Continue Reading

On the Dubious Use of Fallacies

By Ryan Smith and Rachel Wood Internet debates have seen what one could refer to as ‘the rise of the blowhard’ – people who throw down the name of a fallacy as if it somehow ‘wins’ them the discussion. But the identification of fallacies, even when properly executed, can rarely be used to prove the[…] Continue Reading

Pierce Presents: ISFJ

Michael Pierce is a video maker and contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Pierce’s piece represents his own insights and type assessments and not necessarily those of the site. Still, we very much enjoy his work and are pleased to be able to share it with our visitors. By Michael[…] Continue Reading