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I'm still in a brainstorming and resource acquisition phase, and I'm looking for collaborators.
 
I'm still in a brainstorming and resource acquisition phase, and I'm looking for collaborators.
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2018: found this course: [http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World]
  
 
== Ideas for an elective class (or book) on truth and knowing. ==
 
== Ideas for an elective class (or book) on truth and knowing. ==
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* encouraging research to make informed assessments
 
* encouraging research to make informed assessments
 
* fluency in some modern ideas
 
* fluency in some modern ideas
** Stove's conclusion
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** [http://huben.us/wiki/Skepticism_of_Philosophical_Thought Stove's conclusion]
 
* writing
 
* writing
 
** concision
 
** concision
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*how well do we know what we know
 
*how well do we know what we know
 
** how do we learn
 
** how do we learn
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***How Do You Know?: The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge by Russell Hardin
 
***memorization
 
***memorization
 
** how do we process
 
** how do we process
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*how do we actually think?
 
*how do we actually think?
 
**not deductively
 
**not deductively
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* what is knowledge
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* foundations of knowledge
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** experience
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** models
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** values
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** viewpoints, including biases
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** lies, fantasies, fictions, wishes
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* why are there multiple conflicting knowledges
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** [https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/10/14/you-dont-have-evidence-for-most-of-your-beliefs-get-used-to-it/ You don’t have evidence for most of your beliefs. Get used to it.]
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* utilizing multiple conflicting knowledges
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** rabbinical methodologies?
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* choosing among multiple conflicting knowledges
 
*folk knowledge versus modern knowledge
 
*folk knowledge versus modern knowledge
 
**see consilience
 
**see consilience
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*** [http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2013/04/moral-intuitions-as-evolutionary-modules.html Moral intuitions as evolutionary modules]
 
*** [http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2013/04/moral-intuitions-as-evolutionary-modules.html Moral intuitions as evolutionary modules]
 
*** [https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.2dpv5v4u5 Cognitive bias cheat sheet]
 
*** [https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.2dpv5v4u5 Cognitive bias cheat sheet]
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*** [https://yourbias.is/poster Get a 'Know Thyself' biases poster]
 
*conspiracy theories
 
*conspiracy theories
 
**god of the gaps
 
**god of the gaps
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****http://web.archive.org/web/20070415083414/http://www.freeinquiry.com/intro-to-sci.html
 
****http://web.archive.org/web/20070415083414/http://www.freeinquiry.com/intro-to-sci.html
 
***modeling: analogy
 
***modeling: analogy
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***[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility Epistemic humility]
 
***innate modeling
 
***innate modeling
 
***anecdotes
 
***anecdotes
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***science
 
***science
 
***markets
 
***markets
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*** [https://ecpr.eu/filestore/paperproposal/79d2738d-62e7-4991-a1af-6dcd19dccbca.pdf COMING TO TERMS WITH ACCOUNTABILITY]
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*** war
 
**hill-climbing, maxima, etc.
 
**hill-climbing, maxima, etc.
 
*deception -- everybody lies
 
*deception -- everybody lies
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** business
 
** business
 
** religion
 
** religion
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*** pseudepigraphical writing
 
** scientists
 
** scientists
 
*** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1 Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing]
 
*** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1 Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing]
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***dictionaries and other references as arbiters of meaning
 
***dictionaries and other references as arbiters of meaning
 
*surveys and their fallacies
 
*surveys and their fallacies
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*Misinformation and disinformation pages in wikipedia
 
*propaganda
 
*propaganda
 
**Tomorrow Belongs to Me (bandwagon purpose of music)
 
**Tomorrow Belongs to Me (bandwagon purpose of music)
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*ontology
 
*ontology
 
*learning
 
*learning
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** from infancy on, learning is based on trust in the sources.  We do not have resources to check even a slight fraction of what we are learning against the real world let alone against what we already think we know.
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** [https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/10/14/you-dont-have-evidence-for-most-of-your-beliefs-get-used-to-it/ You don’t have evidence for most of your beliefs. Get used to it.]
 
**research vs. gossip, accuracy vs retention
 
**research vs. gossip, accuracy vs retention
** complexity beyond (single) human understanding [https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe Dizzying but invisible depth]
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** complexity beyond (single) human understanding [http://web.archive.org/web/20170609044355/https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe Dizzying but invisible depth]
 
*consequentialism
 
*consequentialism
 
*skepticism
 
*skepticism
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**nutrition
 
**nutrition
 
**medicine
 
**medicine
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***quackademic medicine (infiltration into medical practices)
 
**politics
 
**politics
 
**finances
 
**finances
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**alternatives
 
**alternatives
 
**the emperor (religion) has no clothes (no visible god)
 
**the emperor (religion) has no clothes (no visible god)
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*Entire fields can be identified as very low in truth content because there are many traditionally held beliefs that all contradict each other.
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** the many religions, the many philosophies, most world views, some social sciences
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** [https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl The PhilPapers Surveys]: philosophers cannot agree on anything basic.
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** [http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/vast-literatures-as-mud-moats.html Vast Literatures as Mud Moats]: a heuristic method of identifying when it is worthwhile or not to explore a literature.
 
*pseudoscience: recognizing pseudoscience: asimov/clark's rules
 
*pseudoscience: recognizing pseudoscience: asimov/clark's rules
 
*origins
 
*origins
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**how to detect fake images
 
**how to detect fake images
 
*public relations
 
*public relations
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** <i>Post-Truth</i>, Lee McIntyre
 
*fringe groups (LaRouche, cults, etc.)
 
*fringe groups (LaRouche, cults, etc.)
 
*race/culture/ethnicity
 
*race/culture/ethnicity
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**self interest
 
**self interest
 
**active vs passive acceptance of falsehoods (reorganize)
 
**active vs passive acceptance of falsehoods (reorganize)
**confirmation bias
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**confirmation bias, including the political sense of epistemic closure
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***tribal epistemology
 
**humans use non-monotonic heuristics, seldom logic
 
**humans use non-monotonic heuristics, seldom logic
  
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== Miscelaneous ==
 
== Miscelaneous ==
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.htm A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia]
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* [https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/19/1/2/463780/Denialism-what-is-it-and-how-should-scientists Denialism: what is it and how should scientists respond?]
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* [https://www.skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf The Debunking Handbook]
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* [http://callingbullshit.org Calling Bullshit in the age of Big Data] College course
 
* David McRaney, "You Are Not So Smart" (46 fallacies and cognitive biases)
 
* David McRaney, "You Are Not So Smart" (46 fallacies and cognitive biases)
 
* Guy P. Harrison, "50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True"
 
* Guy P. Harrison, "50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True"
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* Lawrence Wright, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief"
 
* Lawrence Wright, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief"
 
* [http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense]
 
* [http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense]
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* [http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/02/economics-as-a-professional-vocation-bulls-detection-as-a-student-learning-goal.html Bulls--- Detection as a Student Learning Goal - Brad DeLong]
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* Nonsense on Stilts: How to tell Science from Bunk (Massimo Pigliucci)
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* [http://whatstheharm.net what's the harm?] This site is designed to make a point about the danger of not thinking critically. Namely that you can easily be injured or killed by neglecting this important skill.
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* [https://b-ok.lat/book/3554094/bce2e3 Truth (book) by Chase Wrenn]

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