Last month I visited Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and gave a series of talks and interviews. The two interviews are available, in high definition video: An 11 minute interview with Luis Figueroa, on medicine.
Mike, I presume there is, though I'm too close to myself to be a good judge. I suppose I like big neglected topics where I can use modestly formal techniques to make a clear contribution.
1. I like the bit about fiction being a good way of getting across an idea, if not discovering truths. I wonder if a college department might benefit from hiring novelists to novelize the ideas of the members of the department, for publicity!
2. I do think fiction gets a little beat up on though in the interview. Isn't the activity of hypothesizing basically 'fiction writing' of a sort. A good imagination could help create many frames through which a research project could look, helping to overcome cognitive-frame-blindness. Of course, the actual collecting of data wouldn't be a process of fiction-writing.
3. I recall in your interview with Russ Roberts mentioning you liked to take many different pieces of data and try to craft a theory out of them as a whole rather than creating piecemeal theories for each datum. I thought during the this interview "Is there some unifying principle that explains your myriad interests?" :)
Mike, I presume there is, though I'm too close to myself to be a good judge. I suppose I like big neglected topics where I can use modestly formal techniques to make a clear contribution.
1. I like the bit about fiction being a good way of getting across an idea, if not discovering truths. I wonder if a college department might benefit from hiring novelists to novelize the ideas of the members of the department, for publicity!
2. I do think fiction gets a little beat up on though in the interview. Isn't the activity of hypothesizing basically 'fiction writing' of a sort. A good imagination could help create many frames through which a research project could look, helping to overcome cognitive-frame-blindness. Of course, the actual collecting of data wouldn't be a process of fiction-writing.
3. I recall in your interview with Russ Roberts mentioning you liked to take many different pieces of data and try to craft a theory out of them as a whole rather than creating piecemeal theories for each datum. I thought during the this interview "Is there some unifying principle that explains your myriad interests?" :)
Interesting interview. I'm printing off your paper with Tyler to try to get the jist of the forthcoming book.