mTurk data has been bad for years My colleagues and I recently ran an experiment on mTurk, CloudResearch, Prolific, and undergraduates. It was 😳. Here are 5 strategies to prevent junk data from ruining your online research (and not just on mTurk): byrdnick.com/archives/17610…

Does anyone know a good history of the reception of Kant? That is, a history of what interpretations of Kant were dominant at what times, how that changed over time and why, and so on?

New paper with Joachim Horvath: Arguing about thought experiments (Synthese; open access). Can (informal) arguments influence knowledge ascriptions in Gettier-style cases (GSC)? Short thread…(1/4)

Uhm this is an accurate quote, but in the next paragraph I go on to explain why I don't believe any of this is right.

Peter Singer asks how much each of us is obligated to give to famine relief - whereas Adam Smith would have asked: how do some societies become famine-proof? - David Schmidtz on how philosophy lost its way, from his excellent new book _Living Together_. a.co/d/aSjOpoU

But taking the bait even to the point of warning people NOT to take the bait iIS taking the bait. Since its an attention trap. Also, taking the bait (by not taking it) in this way lands you in a second trap. 1/

Not at all to make light of this submarine situation, & indeed quite the opposite: I’m thinking it will make a very good classroom illustration of Clifford’s first shipowner?

Hey who has Pittsburgh food recommendations, in particular in the Pitt/Oakland area?

1/ Another day, another David Sacks long-tweet with paragraphs about Ukraine in which just about every sentence is wrong. It comes from a fight with Matthew Yglesias whose blog I recommend reading in full rather than judging by the exerpt Sacks pulls out. slowboring.com/p/joe-biden-is…

Conference tip: Always pay attention to PhD students' papers and presentations. They're reading all the theory on the topic and they're extremely rigorous on method. Plus, they have rehearsed the presentation 8 times already, they didn't just finish it on the plane.

What if it’s dancer?

Excited to share a new paper w/ Maureen Gill! We investigated whether an individual's epistemic behavior - choosing to seek vs. forgo further evidence or explanation - supports inferences about the individual's commitment to truth, science, & religion. authors.elsevier.com/c/1hK6Q2Hx2tWtK

Please please please let’s have an MCU spin off featuring a Hayley Atwell and Olivia Coleman team up?

Two outstanding Arizona Wildcats!

Thanks to @jneuf I am now at that other cerulean joint, and will probably not be on here much. My handle there is just my first name concatenated with my last name (no spaces or other punctuation). Hope to see y'all there!

Not fucking around, so as not to find out.