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The Understanding Project
Essays about why we believe what we do, how post-truth societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better.
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Apr 30, 2021
Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true
Algorithms and the…
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Sep 24, 2020
The Stakes Are High, Don’t Shun Contrarians!
Why enforced intellectual conformism hurts truth-finding
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Aug 25, 2020
Worse, but More Moral, So Better?
Talking morals and not consequences is deceptive: we have similar…
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Aug 10, 2020
What I Can’t Believe
Privilege, standpoint epistemology and lived experiences: why one may claim a…
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Aug 4, 2020
1: Truth as a Power Game
Introducing the renewed blog
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Dec 12, 2019
Truth in the Post-Truth Era: It’s Not That Complicated
Why you don’t need to worry about lying…
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Nov 27, 2019
Reality-Making: The Art of Distinguishing Truth from Falsehood
Understanding the constitution of…
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Oct 29, 2019
Why Your Opinions Reveal More Than You Think
They show who you trust, more than what you believe
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Sep 17, 2019
The Scientific Case for Humanity’s Goodness
Hobbes, Milgram, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the
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Aug 20, 2019
We Hardly Understand the Dynamics of Progress
Steven Pinker, optimism and how to live
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