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Showing posts with label Epistemology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epistemology. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Reflective Reasoning & Philosophy

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Nick Byrd Philosophy Compass First published: 29 September 2021 Abstract Philosophy is a reflective activity. So perhaps it is unsurprising ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Morality justifies motivated reasoning in the folk ethics of belief

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Corey Cusimano & Tania Lombrozo Cognition 19 January 2021 Abstract When faced with a dilemma between believing what is supported by an i...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

How people decide what they want to know

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Sharot, T., Sunstein, C.R.  Nat Hum Behav 4, 14–19 (2020).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0793-1 Abstract Immense amounts of informatio...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online

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Lorenz-Spreen, P., Lewandowsky, S., Sunstein, C.R. et al. Nat Hum Behav (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0889-7 Abstract Pu...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will

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Donald McNeil, Jr. The New York Times Originally posted 15 July 20 Here is the end: As a result, New Yorkers took certain steps — some...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Debunking the Secular Case for Religion

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Gurwinder Bhogal rabbitholemag.com Originally published 28 April 20 Here is an excerpt: Could we, perhaps, identify the religious trad...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment: Empirical and Philosophical Developments

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J. May, C. I. Workman, J. Haas, & H. Han Forthcoming in Neuroscience and Philosophy, eds. Felipe de Brigard & Walter Sinnott-Armst...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality

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The Institute of Arts and Ideas Originally published September 8, 2019 Many scientists believe that natural selection brought our perc...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Galileo’s Big Mistake

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Philip Goff Scientific American Blog Originally posted November 7, 2019 Here is an excerpt: Galileo, as it were, stripped the physical...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment

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Joanna Demaree-Cotton & Guy Kahane Published in T he Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology , eds. Karen Jones, Mark Timmons, and Aar...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

When and why people think beliefs are “debunked” by scientific explanations for their origins

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Dillon Plunkett, Lara Buchak, and Tania Lombrozo Abstract How do scientific explanations for beliefs affect people’s confidence in those...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Escape the echo chamber

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By C Thi Nguyen aeon.co Originally posted April 9, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Epistemic bubbles also threaten us with a second danger: e...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

The 3 faces of clinical reasoning: Epistemological explorations of disparate error reduction strategies.

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Sandra Monteiro, Geoff Norman, & Jonathan Sherbino J Eval Clin Pract. 2018 Jun;24(3):666-673. Abstract There is general consensus t...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Escape the Echo Chamber

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C Thi Nguyen www.medium.com Originally posted April 12, 2018 Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that d...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Why Pure Reason Won’t End American Tribalism

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Robert Wright www.wired.com Originally published April 9, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Pinker also understands that cognitive biases can b...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology

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David Roberts Vox.com Originally posted May 19, 2017 and still extremely important Here is an excerpt: Over time, this leads to what y...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Rather than being free of values, good science is transparent about them

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Kevin Elliott The Conversation Originally published November 8, 2017 Scientists these days face a conundrum. As Americans are buffeted b...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals

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Gina Kolata The New York Times Originally published October 30, 2017 Here is an excerpt: Yet “every university requires some level of ...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Why we pretend to know things, explained by a cognitive scientist

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Sean Illing Vox.com Originally posted November 3, 2017 Why do people pretend to know things? Why does confidence so often scale with ign...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Must science be testable?

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Massimo Pigliucci Aeon Originally published August 10, 2016 Here is an excerpt: hat said, the publicly visible portion of the physics...