- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 8 comments philosophy
- Researchers developed a user-friendly flowchart that shows how to evaluate arguments — especially arguments about complicated subjects like climate change. https://byrdnick.com/archives/12654/evaluate-the-argument-with-one-flowchart 12 comments philosophy
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 43 comments philosophy
- Reflective reasoning has been considered crucial to sound judgment, but reflection does not always produce the benefits that philosophers and scientists expect. https://byrdnick.com/archives/11990/what-good-is-reflective-reasoning 5 comments philosophy
- Intuitively, reflective reasoning seems like a skill: an ability that we can improve with practice. Consider two philosophers' seemingly opposing views about this. https://byrdnick.com/archives/15946/on-whether-reflection-is-a-skill 10 comments philosophy
- A list of over 40 philosophy podcasts, updated regularly (4 added in the past 48 hours) https://byrdnick.com/archives/13426/philosophy-podcasts 6 comments philosophy
- Philosophers disagree about whether reflective reasoning is a virtue. Consider an argument from each side. https://byrdnick.com/archives/13007/reflection-and-virtue#more-13007 18 comments philosophy
- Well-being and ill-being: How to predict, explain, and control them. https://byrdnick.com/archives/15462/causal-network-accounts-of-ill-being-depression-digital-well-being 16 comments philosophy
- Anti-natalism seems to involve contradiction, equivocation, or a false sense of commensurability. https://byrdnick.com/archives/4188/existence-non-existence-anti-natalism-benetar 941 comments philosophy
- A dissertation about the role of reflective reasoning in philosophy, morality, and bias. https://byrdnick.com/archives/13844/dissertation-reflection-philosophy-morality-bias 16 comments philosophy
- Evaluating an argument with just one flowchart https://byrdnick.com/archives/12654/evaluate-the-argument-with-one-flowchart 24 comments philosophy
- Unconscious Intentions Do Not Undermine Free Will https://byrdnick.com/archives/4298/unconscious-intentions-free-will 674 comments philosophy
- 3 Tips For Someone Taking Their First Philosophy Class https://byrdnick.com/archives/6670/first-philosophy-class-introduction-to-philosophy?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialwarfare 18 comments philosophy
- Some think the mind is an immaterial soul. Others think it is just the brain. But there are many, many more views than that. Here's a flowchart to keep track. https://byrdnick.com/archives/13114/metaphysics-of-mind-flowchart-taxonomy 98 comments philosophy
- Four possibilities about how scientists draw inferences about mechanisms and/or interpret 'mechanism'. https://byrdnick.com/archives/6499/mechanism-in-cognitive-science 5 comments philosophy
- On The Roles of Intuition & Reflection in Skill & Expertise https://byrdnick.com/archives/11572/intuition-reflection-skill-expertise-montero-dreyfus 9 comments philosophy
- Much of philosophy is a sort of proto-psychology, eliciting intuitions and then theorizing about them. But one philosopher is arguing that psychology’s method is better. https://byrdnick.com/archives/12826/philosophy-as-proto-psychology 11 comments philosophy
- Researchers developed a user-friendly flowchart that shows how to evaluate arguments — especially arguments about complicated subjects like climate change. https://byrdnick.com/archives/12654/evaluate-the-argument-with-one-flowchart 305 comments philosophy
- 3 Tips For Those Taking Their First Philosophy Class https://byrdnick.com/archives/6670/first-philosophy-class-introduction-to-philosophy 70 comments philosophy
- 3 Problems With Studying Moral Relativism and Cheating https://byrdnick.com/archives/10627/traveling-abroad-moral-relativism-prescreen-cheating-problem 3 comments philosophy
- When we can accept sexual harassment accusations, according to the Acceptance Principle. https://byrdnick.com/archives/12457/sexual-harassment-accusations-acceptance-principle 35 comments philosophy
- 3 Reasons To Think That Philosophy Is Continuous with Science https://byrdnick.com/archives/12338/philosophy-is-continuous-with-science 211 comments philosophy
- Our capacity for critical reasoning entails that we have self-knowledge, argues Tyler Burge. https://byrdnick.com/archives/11762/critical-reasoning-self-knowledge-tyler-burge 64 comments philosophy
- Is post-fact reasoning redeemable? How a few findings from the psychology of political reasoning can make sense of our political discourse. [x-post from r/psychology] https://byrdnick.com/archives/9908/post-fact-irredeemable 16 comments philosophy
- You probably know what self-consciousness is. But do you know what 'reflective self-consciousness' is? It is a subject-reflexive awareness of being in a subject-reflexive state. I know, that's just jargon. So here is an explanation (with drawings): https://byrdnick.com/archives/11793/christopher-peacocke-reflective-self-consciousness 9 comments philosophy
- When students ask me how to write a good philosophy paper, I give them these four criteria, in this order: (1st) clarity, (2nd) cogency, (3rd) conciseness, and (optionally) creativity. Then I give them 5 tips to achieve these criteria. https://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11510/how-to-write-a-philosophy-paper 19 comments philosophy
- Reflective reasoning is deliberate, conscious thinking about thinking. Sometimes reflective reasoning helps. Alas, sometimes it doesn’t. (And sometimes it hurts.) A good account of reflective reasoning should explain why reflective reasoning sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. https://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11559/what-is-reflective-reasoning 94 comments philosophy
- If our intuitions can be explained by neuroscience, then our intuitions might be the result of natural properties. And that might mean that an appeal to intuition is an appeal to nature (which can be a fallacy). So is it a fallacy to appeal to intuition? Here are three ways to answer that question. https://www.byrdnick.com/archives/4318/appeal-to-nature-appeal-to-intuition-fallacy 234 comments philosophy
- "If our judgments are dependent on the brain, then maybe we can understand our judgments by studying our brains. So maybe we can understand our philosophical judgments by studying our brains. So can neuroscience help us understand philosophy? Here are some studies which suggest that it can." https://www.byrdnick.com/archives/4736/experimental-philosophy-neuroscience-of-philosopy 284 comments philosophy
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 763 comments philosophy
- Daniel Kahneman's research shows how cognitive bias can derail our attempts to answer tough questions. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/10378/research-questions-substitution 3 comments philosophy
- How Kahneman's research on heuristics can help researchers avoid mistakes when trying to answer their research question(s): http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/10378/research-questions-substitution 4 comments cogsci
- 9 Things About People Who Study Philosophy: higher income, better school admission rates, better test scores, better reasoning,... http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/9891/study-philosophy 6 comments philosophy
- 30 podcasts about philosophy and related topics. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/10238/cognitive-science-philosophy-podcasts 5 comments philosophy
- Online resources for studying and teaching philosophy. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/10244/studying-teaching-philosophy 69 comments philosophy
- A list of philosophy and/or cognitive science blogs. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/10251/cognitive-science-andor-philosophy-blogs 3 comments philosophy
- Videos about philosophy and cognitive science. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/10249/videos-cognitive-science-philosophy 4 comments philosophy
- Is post-fact reasoning redeemable? http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/9908/post-fact-irredeemable 4 comments politics