Dan Williams
@danwilliamsphil
Philosopher, University of Sussex. Tweets in personal capacity. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Society. Writes at: https://t.co/MniDhzFnow
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Some good (although IMO overly optimistic) insights in this Matthew Yglesias piece on 'What the left gets right': slowboring.com/p/what-the-lef…
There is an interesting scientific debate concerning whether political beliefs that seem to result from motivated reasoning might actually be driven by Bayesian inference. Cool findings by Michael Thaler suggest motivated reasoning is real 👇.
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
'conscious and deliberate motivated cognition is not as difficult as it is often portrayed... the important question is not whether conscious and deliberate belief-biasing is possible but in which contexts it is more prevalent'
-Stephen Gadsby researchgate.net/publication/37…