Ethics of Belief
This mathematician and philosopher survived a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily.
Who is William Clifford?
What is impostor syndrome?
What is appeal to irrelevant authority?
Bullshit occurs when people speak with no regard to this.
What is truth?
“…we have a right to believe at our own risk any hypothesis that is live enough to tempt our will.”
Who is William James?
A man who got an MD, but instead of practicing medicine, taught himself psychology and philosophy.
Who is William James?
The tendency to be swayed by how information is presented, for example feeling more positive about something with a 90% success rate than something with a 10% failure rate.
What is framing?
This fallacy occurs when one of the premises in an argument is really just the conclusion in disguise.
What is begging the question?
These two magicians had a show called Bullshit; in one episode they got people to sign a petition banning water.
Who are Penn & Teller?
“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.”
Who is Harry Frankfurt?
Who is Blaise Pascal?
The tendency to overestimate the duration and intensity of emotions in response to changes in one's life.
What is impact bias?
A fallacy that assumes that a later event must have been caused by an earlier event because of temporal succession.
What is Post Hoc?
A specimen of bullshit gets this rating on Petrocelli's index if it is dangerous.
What are 3 flies?
“The Danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.”
Who is William Clifford?
Clifford tells us that it is always wrong to believe anything without this.
What is sufficient evidence?
The feeling that things used to be great and are only getting worse.
What is declinism?
What is ad hominem?
This professional basketball player claims that the earth is flat and that the rest of us should do some research.
Who is Kyrie Irving?
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion; however, if an opinion is not accompanied by reasons or argument, we cannot determine whether it deserves our acceptance.”
Who is T. Edward Damer?
James' term for a possibility we're willing to take seriously.
The tendency of incompetent people to overestimate their competence, and vice-versa.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
A fallacy that occurs when we dismiss legitimate counterexamples to our claim as illegitimate.
What is "no true Scotsman"?
A species of bullshit in which one makes statements that sound "deep" but are actually nonsense.
What is pseudo-profundity?
“We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around.”
Who is Daniel Kahneman?