I'm really excited that my paper, "The Structure of Open Secrets," is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Review. philpapers.org/rec/BERTSO-68

Eric Schliesser "Synthetic Philosophy: A Restatement," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2024 appeared. A picture of the abstract below. (The link is in first comment.) The paper is dedicated to Daniel Dennett (at the suggestion of Dr. Walter Veit). Below links and back story 1

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

Yang Xiang has a new paper with me and Kevin Dorst showing that you don't find a gambler's fallacy in probability judgments (by you do in point predictions): osf.io/preprints/psya… This dissociation suggests that the gambler's fallacy doesn't arise from probabilistic reasoning.

Where Does This Leave Democrats? nytimes.com/2024/11/07/opi…

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/…

Pundits can't predict elections. Does that mean we shouldn't take their post-election diagnoses seriously? No. I wrote a piece explaining why: kevindorst.substack.com/p/no-post-elec…

Pundits can't predict elections. Does that mean we should dismiss their post-election diagnoses? No. I wrote a piece explaining why: kevindorst.com/sa_punditry.ht…

I'm excited that my paper, "Non-Epistemic Deniability," is now forthcoming in MIND. In it, I offer an analysis of implausible deniability--a kind of deniability that someone can have even when it's perfectly and completely obvious what she did. More: drive.google.com/file/d/1BAyzIH…

Trump won the popular vote. What does that mean about the US electorate? Less than you think. Most people are badly wrong about their political opponents—a finding called the "perception gap". I wrote about why this matters for liberals right now: kevindorst.com/sa_nightmare.h…

With the help of The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC and Alex Worsnip, just came out with a new explainer-video on the epistemology of polarization. Does polarization provide evidence for irrationality? youtube.com/watch?v=h9ndBi…

Excited to share our second "explainer video"! (Refresher: these are ~5 min animations introducing applied epistemology concepts for a wide audience.) This one's on polarization, feat. script by Kevin Dorst! Please share, consider using in teaching, etc! youtube.com/watch?v=h9ndBi…

This is bad. nationalreview.com/2025/04/abrego…