209. Intellectual Humility

2021-05-28

It’s hard to imagine two subreddits more different than IAmVerySmart & Change My View, & the difference is clear: intellectual arrogance/humility. But what is that, exactly?

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Intellectual Humility: Owning Our Limitations (Whitcomb et al, 2015) - https://philarchive.org/archive/WHIIHO-3

Intellectual Humility: An Interpersonal Theory (Priest, 2017) - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0004.016/–intellectual-humility-an-interpersonal-theory?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Why Be an Intellectually Humble Philosopher? (Mizrah, 2015) - https://philarchive.org/archive/MIZWBA-2v1

Stepping Outside the Echo Chamber: Is Intellectual Humility Associated with Less PoliticalMyside Bias? (Bowe et al, 2021) - https://psyarxiv.com/vmsh9/download?format=pdf

The Nobel Disease: When Intelligence Fails to Protect against Irrationality (Basterfield et al, 2020) - https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/05/the-nobel-disease-when-intelligence-fails-to-protect-against-irrationality/

Links between intellectual humility and acquiring knowledge (Krumrei-Mancuso, 2020) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17439760.2019.1579359

Intellectual Humility, Confidence, and Argumentation (Kidd, 2016) - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-015-9324-5

Against Modest Epistemology (Yudkowsky, 2017) - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/svoD5KLKHyAKEdwPo/against-modest-epistemology

Intellectual Humility: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Science (Church & Samuelson, 2016) - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Intellectual_Humility/RG8wDQAAQBAJ

20 of the Greatest Blunders in Science in the Last 20 Years (Newman, 2000) - https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/20-of-the-greatest-blunders-in-science-in-the-last-20-years

IAmVerySmart - https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/comments/i939xv/yeah_i_am_very_smart/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/comments/cp4flf/bats_are_birds/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/comments/7nbnhs/i_texted_all_of_my_contacts_happy_new_year_im/ https://i.imgur.com/GqltLIO.jpg

Change My View - https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

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