Adam Conover has made a video that supposedly shows that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is, quote, “total BS.” The video makes the argument that the theory of Psychological Types should be discounted because it’s not scientific. But the main debunking move of the video is that the theory can’t be right because Myers and Briggs didn’t[…] Continue Reading
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Since there continues to be confusion about our method and approach to typology, we’ve made this video to clarify what it is we do and why we do it and hopefully dispel any lingering misunderstandings. The first choice of any approach to typology is to select what sources one will admit into one’s theoretical framework.[…] Continue Reading
By Boye Akinwande Many ENFJs get mistaken for INFJs if they are either socially shy or reserved, or if they are pensive, academic, and intellectual. Similarly, some ENFJs looking into typology mistype themselves as INFJs for the same reason, or walk away from typology altogether, since many of the ENFJ descriptions imply that ENFJs are[…] Continue Reading
1 “Extraverted thinking … involves thoughts that are strongly influenced by what is ‘out there’: Facts, views and ideas which come in from [the outside] … (that is, not emanating from within our own minds). This is the kind of thinking associated with … empirical investigation, as well as concretized, planned thinking. … [It forms][…] Continue Reading
By Boye Akinwande People who use a classical function-based approach to typology, like we do on this site, often confuse ENFPs and INFPs with one another because they have the same functions in almost the same order. The two NFP types are the only types with Fi and Ne as their uppermost functions and Si and Te as their[…] Continue Reading
Since Trump’s election in November 2016, some scholars and writers, most notably among them the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, have claimed that Trump’s victory was in part made possible by the attack on truth and rationality undertaken by French poststructuralist philosophers in the 80s. How much sensibility is there to this claim? Well, to start[…] Continue Reading
Anthony Gottlieb The Dream of Enlightenment Penguin 2016 Review by Ryan Smith Do you, like Pope John Paul the Second and Prince Charles, regard Descartes as a subjectivist? Or Rousseau as someone who believed that humans in the state of nature would treat each other nicely? Do you believe that Hobbes was an atheist? Or that[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith In Part 1 of this series, we saw that: Jung, when asked in public, always said he was a Ti (ITP) type. There is a “secret” seminar where Jung identifies his Intuition as “superior.” Some theorists take this to mean that Jung secretly identified as an Ni (INJ) type. Jung was not[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith Now that we have reconstructed the contents of the Unwritten Doctrine and examined the paradox of how the One can be both unconditioned and limited at the same time, it remains for us to examine whether the Unwritten Doctrine actually refutes the Third Man Argument, as it was ostensibly meant to do.[…] Continue Reading
Among contemporary Buddhist schools, many lay claim to be the authentic heirs of the teaching of the Buddha. Yet there is considerable variety among the Buddhist schools in precepts, ethics and philosophy. As one scholar of Buddhism has said, it is as if the whole corpus of philosophy has been gone through in Buddhist form.[…] Continue Reading