explorer Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date April 11, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , beliefs, bias, critics, disagreement, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, journalists, Julia Galef, opinions, podcast, science, truth Science Needs a Scout Mindset; Here’s Why Andrew McDiarmid April 11, 2024 Evolution, Intelligent Design 2 One advantage of the scout mindset is that it makes adjusting the confidence we have in our opinions more of a low-stakes enterprise. Read More ›
scout Type post Author Jonathan McLatchie Date December 4, 2023 CategoriesEpistemologyScientific Reasoning Tagged , bias, Big Bang, climate change, closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, denialism, education, epistemic virtues, Eugenie Scott, evidence, evolution, global warming, human evolution, intellectual humility, intelligent design, Julia Galef, motivated reasoning, nanotechnology, open-mindedness, polarization, popular opinion, Science Literacy, self-correcting, self-deception, Stem Cell Research, TEDx talk Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef Jonathan McLatchie December 4, 2023 Epistemology, Scientific Reasoning 14 The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›
