114. Shades of Skepticism

2017-03-22

Skepticism is an essential tool for rational thought, but knowing when & how to use it is hard…I think???

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(NOTE: the form of skepticism described here is sometimes known as “radical skepticism.”)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Skepticism - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/

Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing, Kahan et al, 2017 - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12396/full

Skepticism on RationalWiki (a resourse of the skeptic community, essentially advocates of scientific primacy) - http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skepticism

THUNK 18 - Skepticism & Empiricism (where I cover an alternate version of skepticism called Pyrrhonian skepticism) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78EScMnTsk

THUNK 86 - Cognitive Biases & the Socratic Method - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-CGN78gdY

THUNK 58 - The Problem of Induction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6kkLJ58Z0

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