“‘Epistemology’ Tag”,2019-08-31 (cognitive bias)⁠:

Bibliography for tag philosophy/epistemology, most recent first: 2 related tags, 145 annotations, & 39 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern2018
  • “The Impossibility of Knowledge of Retrocognitive Knowledge”, Gwern2023
  • “Feynman’s Maze-Running Story”, Gwern2014
  • “Everything Is Correlated”, Gwern2014
  • “Why Dreams Don’t Matter”, Gwern2021
  • “Fake Journal Club: Teaching Critical Reading”, Gwern2022
  • “One Man’s Modus Ponens”, Gwern2012
  • “Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media”, Gwern2018
  • “Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern2018
  • “Leprechaun Hunting & Citogenesis”, Gwern2014
  • “Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation”, Gwern2014
  • “How Should We Critique Research?”, Gwern2019
  • “On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages”, Gwern2016
• Links
  • “Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked”
  • “Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity”, Litina & Fernández2023
  • “Comparing Theories With the Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence”, Maier et al 2023
  • “How People Decide Who Is Correct When Groups of Scientists Disagree”, Johnson et al 2023
  • “AI Is a Lot of Work: As the Technology Becomes Ubiquitous, a Vast Tasker Underclass Is Emerging—And Not Going Anywhere”, Dzieza2023
  • “Can a Good Philosophical Contribution Be Made Just by Asking a Question?”, Habgood-Coote et al 2022
  • “Listening Speaks to Our Intuition While Reading Promotes Analytic Thought”, Geipel & Keysar2022
  • “The Social Epistemology of Introspection”, Unnsteinsson2022
  • “On Form versus Meaning”, Aaronson & GPT-3 2022
  • “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Biological Essentialism, Heuristic Thinking, Need for Closure, and Conservative Values: Insights From a Survey and Twin Study”, Morosoli et al 2022
  • “The Insights Psychedelics Give You Aren’t Always True: The Study of False—Sober—Insights Teaches Us to Be Wary of Accepting Every Realization from Psychedelic Trips without Critical Thinking”, Love2022
  • “Dream Interpretation from a Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspective: The Case of Oneiromancy in Traditional China”, Hong2022
  • “Children Are Unsuspecting Meat Eaters: An Opportunity to Address Climate Change”, Hahn et al 2021
  • “The Epistemology of Evolutionary Debunking”, Koon2021
  • “What Happens When You Ask Questions to the DMT Entities?”, Josikinz & algekalipso 2021
  • “The Psychology of Philosophy: Associating Philosophical Views With Psychological Traits in Professional Philosophers”, Yaden & Anderson2021
  • “Rip Van Winkle’s Razor: A Simple Estimate of Overfit to Test Data”, Arora & Zhang2021
  • “Anthropocentric Biases in Teleological Thinking: How Nature Seems Designed for Humans”, Preston & Shin2021
  • “Representational Measurement Theory: Is Its Number Up?”, Michell2020
  • “My Immortal As Alchemical Allegory”, Alexander2020
  • “Survey of Entity Encounter Experiences Occasioned by Inhaled N,N-Dimethyltryptamine: Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Enduring Effects”, Davis et al 2020
  • “People Judge Others to Have More Voluntary Control over Beliefs Than They Themselves Do”, Cusimano & Goodwin2020
  • “On ‘Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science’, Tong2019”, Gelman2019
  • “That Viral Video of a Convenience Store Robbery Is Worse Than Fake”, Estes2018
  • “Serendipity: Towards a Taxonomy and a Theory”, Yaqub2018
  • “Magic Performances—When Explained in Psychic Terms by University Students”, Lesaffre et al 2018
  • “F—K Nuance”, Healy2017
  • “How Gullible Are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science”, Mercier2017
  • “On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines”, Garfinkel et al 2017
  • “Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?”, Jonas & Kording2016
  • “[Aristotle], On Trolling”, Barney2016
  • “Language and Thought Are Not the Same Thing: Evidence from Neuroimaging and Neurological Patients”, Fedorenko & Varley2016
  • Unsong, Alexander2015
  • Elephas Anthropogenus, Westphal2015
  • “A Novel Classroom Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science”, Hardcastle & Slater2014
  • “Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing § Appendix: A Chronological Compilation of Testimonial Evidence for Esotericism”, Melzer2014
  • “The Case of the Case of Benny: Elucidating the Influence of a Landmark Study in Mathematics Education”, Leatham & Winiecke2014
  • “Do You Believe Me, Doc?”, Alexander2014
  • “What Do Philosophers Believe?”, Bourget & Chalmers2013
  • “Mathematics in the Age of the Turing Machine”, Hales2013
  • “What I Make up When I Wake Up: Anti-Experience Views and Narrative Fabrication of Dreams”, Rosen2013
  • “Scientific Misconduct and the Myth of Self-Correction in Science”, Stroebe et al 2012
  • “Mathematics of the Past [Roman Empire Denialism]”, Kasparov2012
  • “Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity”, Aaronson2011
  • “A Parasite from Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom”, Yurchak2011
  • “Notes on a New Philosophy of Empirical Science”, Burfoot2011
  • “Cognitive Enhancement in Courts”, Sandberg et al 2011
  • “The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation”, Shwed & Bearman2010
  • “Inverse Law of Scientific Nomenclature”, Alexander2010
  • “Are Philosophers Expert Intuiters?”, Weinberg et al 2010
  • “Scott and Scurvy: How the Cure for Scurvy Was Lost”, Ceglowski2010
  • “The Epistemic Benefit of Transient Diversity”, Zollman2009
  • “Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb? Inside an Institutional Memory Lapse of Nuclear Proportions”, Baumann2009
  • “The Concept of Efficiency: An Historical Analysis”, Alexander2009
  • “Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks With Low Probabilities and High Stakes”, Ord et al 2008
  • “Strategic Reliabilism: A Naturalistic Approach to Epistemology”, Bishop & Trout2008
  • “The Unreliability of Naive Introspection”, Schwitzgebel2008
  • “On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing”
  • “Trust in Testimony: How Children Learn About Science and Religion”, Harris & Koenig2006b
  • Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics, Drescher2006
  • “The Pathologies of Standard Analytic Epistemology”, Bishop & Trout2005
  • “The Historical Mind and Military Strategy”, Cohen2005
  • “Is Critical Thinking Epistemically Responsible?”, Huemer2005
  • “Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction”, McNally & Clancy2005
  • “PL-Detective: A System for Teaching Programming Language Concepts”, Diwan et al 2004
  • “Wittgenstein on The Standard Metre”, Pollock2004
  • “Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy”, Korb2004
  • “Meta-Atheism: Religious Avowal As Self-Deception”, Rey2004
  • “Constructing a Logic of Plausible Inference: A Guide to Cox’s Theorem”, Horn2003
  • “Fundamentally Misunderstanding Visual Perception: Adults’ Belief in Visual Emissions”, Winer et al 2002
  • Zendo, Heath2002
  • “Scattered Naive Theories: Why the Human Mind Is Isomorphic to the Internet Web”, Leiser2001
  • “Some Remarkable Properties of Sinc and Related Integrals”, Borwein & Borwein2001
  • “Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire”, Collins2001
  • “Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming”, Caffrey2000
  • “Tell The Bees… Belief, Knowledge & Hypersymbolic Cognition”, Simons2000
  • “An Editor Recalls Some Hopeless Papers”, Hodges1998
  • “Bernard Maston, Donald R. Griffith, and the Deprong Mori of the Tripsicum Plateau”, Worth1996
  • “Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons”, MacKenzie & Spinardi1995
  • “Inhaling the Spore: Field Trip to a Museum of Natural (un)history”, Weschler1994
  • “The Tuned Deck”, Hull & Hilliard1994
  • “A Sociological Study of the Official History of the Perceptrons Controversy [1993_31ya]”, Olazaran1993
  • “Writing Is a Technology That Restructures Thought”, Ong1992
  • “What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo [Ch7, The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies]”, Stove1991
  • “Explanatory Coherence”, Thagard1989
  • “Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing”, Luce1989
  • “Statistical Procedures and the Justification of Knowledge in Psychological Science”, Rosnow & Rosenthal1989
  • “A Critique of Pure Reason”, McDermott1987
  • “How Would It Look If…?”, Brown1986
  • “Noise”, Black1986
  • “On Things Not Being What They Appear”, Brown1986b
  • “Programming As Theory Building”, Naur1985
  • “Fake!”, Hamblin1981
  • “Fiction, Non-Factuals, and the Principle of Minimal Departure”, Ryan1980
  • “Semantic and Conceptual Development: An Ontological Perspective”, Keil1979
  • “Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology”, Meehl1978
  • “Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away”, Dennett1974
  • “The Gospels and Jesus: Some Doubts about Method”, Gager1974
  • “Telepathy and Other Untestable Hypotheses”, Rhine1974
  • “The Book of Imaginary Beings § The Chinese Unicorn”, Borges et al 1974 (page 4)
  • “Benny’s Conception of Rules and Answers in IPI Mathematics”, Erlwanger1973
  • “That’s Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology”, Davis1971
  • “Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject”, Popper1968
  • “A Note on the Text of the Tractatus”
  • “Strong Inference: Certain Systematic Methods of Scientific Thinking May Produce Much More Rapid Progress Than Others”, Platt1964
  • “Is the Scientific Paper Fraudulent? Yes; It Misrepresents Scientific Thought”, Medawar1964
  • “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”, Gettier1963
  • “The Philosophy of Niels Bohr”, Petersen1963
  • “The Brain As an Engineering Problem”, Gregory1961
  • “Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science”, Hanson1958
  • “Is There a Case for Retrocognition?”, Sabine1950
  • “A Royal Practical Joke”, Oesper1948
  • “John Wilkins’s Analytical Language”, Borges1942
  • “Proof of an External World”, Moore1939
  • “Ramon Lull’s Thinking Machine”, Borges1937
  • “Review of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein”, Ramsey1923
  • “Our Fathers of Old”, Kipling1922
  • “Arithmetic By Smell”, Galton1894
  • “Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Chapter 11: Concerning the Probabilities of Testimonies”, Laplace1814
  • “The Secret of Psalm 46 (2002_22ya)”
  • “What I Learned As a Hired Consultant for Autodidact Physicists”
  • A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Laplace2024
  • “Stargate Physics 101”
  • “In Praise of Sparsity and Convexity”, Tibshirani2024 (page 518)
  • “Book Summary: Accelerated Expertise”
  • “Copying Better: How To Acquire The Tacit Knowledge of Experts”
  • “Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice”
  • “How to Use YouTube to Learn Tacit Knowledge”
  • The Gostak
  • “The 3-Page Paper That Shook Philosophy: Gettiers in Software Engineering”
  • “Doing Being Rational: Polymerase Chain Reaction”
  • “Scaling Tacit Knowledge”
  • Probability Theory: The Logic Of Science, Jaynes2024
  • “Jury Theorems”
  • “Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory”
  • “Francis Van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature”
  • “Introductory Antimemetics (abandoned First Draft)”, Hughes2024
  • “Unsong Available In Paperback”, Alexander2024
  • “Strange Planet (Instagram)”, Pyle2024
  • “Is GPT-3 a Good Rationalist?”
  • “Appendix F: Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle”
  • “Frayn’s Spoof of Wittgenstein”
  • “It’s Just A Ride § Positive Drug Story”, Hicks2024
  • “Star Timelapse Revealing the Earth’s Rotation”, Rivest2024
  • “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat”
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