My paper “Faith and Traditions” is now out in Nous. Having faith means sticking with a commitment even in the face of counter-evidence, and can be rational. This explains some puzzling features of religious & moral traditions and scientific paradigms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

On Thursday Nov 2 9:00 am AEDT (Wed Nov 1 6:00 pm EDT), Lara Buchak will present the third and final Dianoia Annual Seminar in Ethics & Metaethics: "How to Care about Risk, Inequality, and Caution". Register for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/DASEME23

Really interesting piece on Kurt Godel’s religious beliefs from one of our excellent former postdocs: aeon.co/essays/kurt-go…

Since the contract is signed, I am thrilled to announce that next year I will be a postdoctoral research associate in Philosophy at Princeton University University working with Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell!

My paper "Faith and rational deference to authority" is now out in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research. I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority even when the authority's pronouncement goes against your own reasoning. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ph…

My paper "Philosophical foundations for worst-case arguments" is out in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Arguments for caring about worst-case scenarios should be based on avoiding risk, not based on avoiding ambiguity. doi.org/10.1177/147059…

My paper "How Should Risk and Ambiguity Affect Our Charitable Giving?" is out in Utilitas. Risk-avoidance and ambiguity-aversion mean we should divide our money between charitable organizations, and pay attention to what kinds of interventions we support. doi.org/10.1017/S09538…

The hardest thing about chess is the other guy is always doing some shit

Rota Like come on, just hold still and let me do my Plan

Moxie Marlinspike same for me with philosophy — tried to capture this sentiment here scottaaronson.blog/?p=9030