#Epistemology

Eli Tyre

EpistemicHope

Culturally, I am clearly part of the "Yudkowsky cluster". And as near as I can tell, Bayes is actually the true foundation of epistemology.But my personal PRACTICE is much closer

Jonathan Ichikawa

jichikawa

One of the central themes in my research is that epistemology is practical in a particular way: skepticism is used to defend the status quo. "Someone says there's a problem,

Alan Cross

AlanLCross

In 1966, white Montgomery Baptist pastors met and admitted they failed re: Race. They thought about how future generations would judge their errors. They admitted to 1) a lack of

Patrick Collison

patrickc

Someone I know has had some quite useful COVID-related posts removed from Medium, LinkedIn, and Nextdoor—they've been deemed "COVID misinformation". (It's not what the WHO endorses!) I think his posts

mark safranski

zenpundit

Every society’s moral cohesion (asabiyya) rests on a set of myths that have a basis in political reality. China = CCP/Confucianism, France= French Revolution-Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, US - Founders/Declaration /Constitution1/

Grant Gaines

DGrantGaines

Will never understand why some SBCers can’t agree that a secular theory can still be “a useful analytical tool.” Don’t have to give it carte blanche approval. If CRT has

Jenna Burrell

jennaburrell

I’m writing a review piece right now where I argue (with Marion Fourcade) that the “coding elite” are a quasi-occupational class that is increasingly powerful and also ill equipped to

Jenna Burrell

jennaburrell

I have some thoughts on Y*nn Lec*nn’s disappointing response on dataset bias (1/12) I’m writing a review piece right now where I argue (with Marion Fourcade) that the “coding elite”

Suzanne Zeedyk

suzannezeedyk

THREAD. For those seeking to understand t violence in America, a key component is Christian Nationalsm, which "merges Christian identity with national identity: to be American is to be Christian....Trump

Behemoth

Foxypiano

The article acknowledges the limitedness of our reason at the moment, and promotes sufficient skepticism and evaluation of our conceived proofs (vague) — which is an INTEGRAL part of scientific

Lane

HaygoodLaw

Ah Christ this stuff never ends. I recall hearing panicky stories like this back in the 90s.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1329577678136020995 For a certain segment of society, "rational thought" just means "things t

Jambavan

SirJambavan

https://twitter.com/hinduacademy/status/1325686776334225411?s=20Some thoughts on this tweet and the widespread fallacy that somehow religion is inferior to science [corollarily, religion has to be elevated to a science in order to be respec

Javeed Sukhera MD PhD

javeedsukhera

A few thoughts about research funding pertaining to systemic racism, structural bias, and inequity in health sciences and related disciplines... As a qualitative researcher with a PhD in education, finding

Mari Brighe

MariBrighe

Okay, I try not to dunk on Twitter knobs, but this is just...Federal judges: *issues extensive, exhaustively reasoned and cited dismissal rulings on Trump’s lawsuits in several states, explaining lack

Fehuwegaz

fehuwegaz

Rebirth and recollection are two important concepts for Platonic epistemology (theory of knowledge), known as μετεμψύχωσις (metempsychosis, usually translated as "transmigration of souls") and ἀνάμνησις (anam

L Mrl

Lmorus

Reading GH's Skirmish piece on The Noumenon. Ten pages in there has been precisely zero philosophical content of note Lots of academic nano-history and hand-wringing on stylistic matters, though The

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