Tagged “epistemology”
- The Primacy of the Scientific Method: Why Empirical Rigor Is the Only Path to Knowledge
- Fighting the Wrong Battle: How the Academic Left Chose the Wrong War
- Beauty, Truth and the Size of Working Memory
- Emotion: The Enemy of Reason
- Theology Belongs with Astrology, Outside the University
- Human Intelligence Is Probably on the Lower Rungs of the Ladder
- Rationality Is the Exception: Humans Were Not Built to Think
- Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution: The Failure of Ambiguity
- Word Embeddings and the Arbitrariness of the Sign
- Wittgenstein Is to Word Embeddings What Alchemy Is to Chemistry
- Philosophy: Anti Education
- The Limits of Understanding: Do the Social Sciences Actually Explain Anything?
- Can You Put a Number on the Divinity of Jesus?
- Heritability and the Discomfort That Follows It
- The Argument from Embarrassment, Inverted
- A Fifty-Fifty Election Extracts Almost No Information From the Public
- Introspection Is a Press Secretary, Not a President
- Why Theology Has Never Discovered Anything
- Consolation Is Not Evidence
- What Are Elections Actually For?
- Representation Does Our Understanding for Us, and Keeps the Change
- The Burden of Proof Is on the Claimant
- Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
- The Outsider Test for Faith
- Unfalsifiability Is Not a Strength
- Faith Is Not a Virtue. It Is an Anti-Epistemology.
- Why Did Revelation Stop?
- The Suspicious Convenience of Religious Doctrine
- The "God of the Gaps" and Scientific Progress
- Not Knowing the Probability Is Not the Same as 50/50
- There Is No Such Thing as the Supernatural
- The Unaligned Steering Wheel: Why Religious Confirmation Bias Is Larger
- Religion Does Not Give You a Basis for Morality, It Takes Away Your Basis for Thinking
- When Historians Say "It Did Not Happen," the Encyclopedia Says "Tradition"
- I Do Not Trust the Doomsday Clock Is Three Different Objections, and All of Them Fail
- We Say All Cultures Are Equal Because We Do Not Trust Our Government
- The News Is Not Trying to Inform You
- Plato's Cave Has No Exit, and Science Says So Openly
- Precision Falls as You Climb the Ladder of the Sciences
- Art Teaches the Wrong Way to Think
- A Cruel Metric for Journalism, and Why Almost Nothing Scores
- A Field With Traditions Is Confessing Something
- History Is the Discipline That Decides Which Explanation Mattered
- What Physics Can Teach the Fields That Are Not Physics
- Refusing to Count Lives Is Also a Way of Counting Them
- Why Truth-Finding Rejects Democracy but Politics Requires It
- Russell's Fear That Culture Decides Truth
- The Wisdom of Crowds Only Appears Under Conditions, and the First Pillar Meets Them
- We Have No System for Distributing Wealth, and Cannot Admit It
- If a Label Carries No Properties, What Is It For?
- Bitcoin Does Not Remove Trust, It Moves It
- "I Decided" Without Free Will
- The Attribution Error Is What Keeps the Political System Unquestioned
- Correlation Without Entailment: Atheism and Marijuana Legalization
- People Do Not Actually Want the Truth
- Are We Becoming More Connected to Reality, or Less?
- AlphaZero Proves We Can Justify Anything
- People Mistake the Emotion a Topic Provokes for the Topic's Depth
- A Curriculum of What Schools Refuse to Teach
- Wikipedia Reports the Majority, Not the Truth
- The Two-Party System Corrupts Institutions, Not Just Voters
- History Books Should Carry a Warning About the Great-Man Bias
- Academia Is More Afraid of Blaming Religion Than of Blaming Anything Else
- "Everyone Is Entitled to Their Own Beliefs" Is Nearly Empty
- Learn to Disrespect What Cost You the Most to Learn
- Beauty Is Not Truth — It Is an Artifact of Our Brain Size
- Logic Cannot Bring Anything Into Existence
- Maxims That Sound Deep but Tell You Nothing
- "You Lack God's Perspective" Is a Catch-All, and Catch-Alls Are Worthless
- Why Philosophy Is in Such a Dismal State
- Political Problems May Need a Language We Have Not Built Yet
- Understanding Is Compression
- Truth Is Not Short, Which Is Why Falsehood Spreads