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Skepticism is an essential tool for rational thought, but knowing when & how to use it is hard...I think???
(NOTE: the form of skepticism described here is sometimes known as "radical skepticism.")
-Links for the Curious-
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Skepticism - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing, Kahan et al, 2017 - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12396/full
Skepticism on RationalWiki (a resourse of the “skeptic” community, essentially advocates of scientific primacy) - rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skepticism
THUNK 18 - Skepticism & Empiricism (where I cover an alternate version of skepticism called Pyrrhonian skepticism) - youtube.com/watch?v=Y78EScMnTsk
THUNK 86 - Cognitive Biases & the Socratic Method - youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-CGN78gdY
THUNK 58 - The Problem of Induction - youtube.com/watch?v=xu6kkLJ58Z0
Skepticism is an essential tool for rational thought, but knowing when & how to use it is hard...I think???
(NOTE: the form of skepticism described here is sometimes known as "radical skepticism.")
-Links for the Curious-
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Skepticism - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing, Kahan et al, 2017 - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12396/full
Skepticism on RationalWiki (a resourse of the “skeptic” community, essentially advocates of scientific primacy) - rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skepticism
THUNK 18 - Skepticism & Empiricism (where I cover an alternate version of skepticism called Pyrrhonian skepticism) - youtube.com/watch?v=Y78EScMnTsk
THUNK 86 - Cognitive Biases & the Socratic Method - youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-CGN78gdY
THUNK 58 - The Problem of Induction - youtube.com/watch?v=xu6kkLJ58Z0
