Anti-Epistemology
ShareIntroduction: The Phenomenon “But even as light is opposed by darkness, science and reason have their enemies.” Quine and Ullian, The Web of Belief, 1978 Sometimes Anti-Epistemology is understood...
View ArticleCognitive Biases and Irrationality
Share We are in possession of the most complex structure known in the universe, the human brain. This jelly-like mass contains a mind-boggling one hundred billion neurons and produces our every...
View ArticleTheism and Expert Knowledge
ShareIntroduction Post last updated: 12.02.2015. Thanks to Kevin Corbett, Michael Tilley, M, and other commentators who helped us improve this post! Suppose you are a layman when it comes to computers...
View ArticleBasic Decision Theory
ShareIntroduction Each day every one of us faces decision problems. Some are as inconsequential as choosing a sweater in a store, others are as intimidating as choosing the right career path. Many of...
View ArticleExpected Utility
Share It’s in the interest of agents to achieve their own goals as well as possible. When we implement this in our behavior, we are acting rationally. But what does this mean in an applied setting,...
View ArticleBayes’ Theorem
ShareIntroduction Post last updated: 30.06.2015. Thanks to EP and others for pointing out that the negation signs were not always displayed properly in the formulae. If some terrible catastrophe...
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