Cultural Cognition is Not a Bias
Some recent posts by Dan Kahan on the subject of “cultural cognition” deserve attention: (Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals to conform their beliefs about disputed…
Posts tagged ‘Judging with Your Gut’
Empathy, Cognition, and In-Group Preferences
The speculative post on empathy generated a great set of comments over on Facebook, but I think the discussion was weighed down by the framing from the…
The Fallacy Fallacy [sic] of Mood Affiliation (Workplace Domination Part Two)
In his initial response to the the Crooked Timber bloggers, Cowen also suggests that he doesn’t like the “mood affiliation” of the CT bloggers: I am…
Crazyism about Ethics
Crazyism about X is the view that something it would be crazy to believe must be among the core truths about X. It’s probably more common…
Deciding Whether or Not to Tell a Story
When I was an undergraduate, I took a class called “Truth and Beauty” with the poet Ann Lauterbach. It was basically a class on reading and…