A post by Blair Fix at Economics from the Top Down about whether the Dunning-Kruger effect (the inverse relationship between one’s skills in a particular domain and one’s tendency to overest...
One way philosophy professors try to interest new students in philosophy is by appealling to the idea that philosophy can help them be more independent thinkers, to take control over or responsib...
https://dailynous.com/2021/11/30/having-say-in-what-you-believe-finding-new-ways-being/
Philosophers have long been interested in how we make sense of the world and how thinking goes wrong. Since some of the most interesting work on these topics in recent decades has been done in s...
Boston Dynamics builds robots. Here’s a video of “Spot,” their robotic dog. Watch until at least the 10-second mark. Is it wrong to kick the dog? What can we learn from our reactions to thi...
https://dailynous.com/2015/02/18/is-this-video-a-test-of-your-rationality-or-humanity/
Should the order in which a person considers thought experiments affect one’s responses to them? Rationally, it seems no. Yet the “order effect” is well-confirmed. What about philosophers? ...
https://dailynous.com/2014/10/16/philosophers-and-cognitive-bias/