Name: Confirmation Bias @MattMcCormick1781
Uploaded: 2013-12-04T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Professor Matt McCormicks lecture on Confirmation Bias. Its one of the most common reasoning mistakes we make. What is it? How do we recognize it? How can we avoid it?

Kahnemans Thinking, Fast and Slow, chapters 37-38 @MattMcCormick1781

Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

This is Prof. Matt McCormick's last lecture for Inductive Logic on Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. We discuss experienced utility vs. decision utility, the experiencing self, the remembering self, the duration neglect mistake, the peak end rule, the Focusing Illusion, miswanting, libertarian paternalism, and correcting System 1 mistakes.

Kahnemans Thinking, Fast and Slow, chapters 37-38

William Paleys Design Argument for God: Watches, Evolution, and The Gap

Kahnemans TFS 1-5 for Inductive Logic, Phil 61

Kahnemans Thinking, Fast and Slow, chapters 19- 24, pt. 1

Prinzs AIR Theory of Consciousness: Attention is Necessary and Sufficient for Consciousness

The Salem Witchcraft Argument Against the Resurrection of Jesus

Expected Value Theory, Philosophical Issues. Peterson, chap. 4 Decisions Under Risk