Nathan Ballantyne

Prof of Philosophy, Cognition, and Culture at @ASU. Research on bias, expertise, disagreement, and open-minded thinking. Author of Knowing Our Limits (Oxford).

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

In a new article w/ @JaredCelniker & @daviddunning6, we examine a commonplace slogan: #DYOR. We spell out the slogan’s diverse meanings, its connection to conspiracy theorists (and Descartes), and argue that improving inquiry calls for greater humility.

https://t.co/5c9dHwPDWQ

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@nescio13 Fox or hedgehog?

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@VanderburghBill Thank you, Bill!

[Bill Vanderburgh @VanderburghBill]

This is a nice piece by @nathanballan on intellectual humility, curiosity, political disagreement, and bridging divides.

https://t.co/QnTT44rXgu

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I wrote a short essay about a disagreement I recently had with a friend.

https://t.co/V4f02bvLzm

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Desert kit fox

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Course readers are back in style

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I interviewed philosopher Penelope Maddy about her writing craft. We talked about her past experience in Hollywood screenwriting, her advice to students, baseball, and more. Check it out!

https://t.co/hlpjL7n4t1

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

@resistancemoney Thank you for your kind words, Andrew.

[Andrew M. Bailey @resistancemoney]

A remarkable interview with a remarkable person And by one too, I add. @nathanballan spends months on these things, getting the questions right and teasing things out of his subjects that no one else has ever managed to do. Read this one, and then read them all.

[Alex Arnold @iamnotabiv]

@nathanballan Maddy taught by undergraduate set theory class at UCI way back in 2003. I was a thoroughly unremarkable student, but I learned a lot in that class. I still reference my old class notes from time to time when I get confused about, e.g., bijection vs. injection.

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

I interviewed philosopher Penelope Maddy about her writing craft. We talked about her past experience in Hollywood screenwriting, her advice to students, baseball, and more. Check it out!

https://t.co/hlpjL7n4t1

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

@nescio13 Thank you for discussing my article, Eric. I look forward to checking this out soon.

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

My friend Andrew Bailey (@resistancemoney) spoke at the final Yale-NUS graduation ceremony. Today, the college will close following the graduation of its Class of 2025. Andrew’s words are wise, heartfelt, and at moments funny.

Goodbye, Yale-NUS.

https://t.co/cIzHfqaBLa

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@rbnmckenna86 Maybe @iamnotabiv knows?

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The author is John Koethe.

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Here’s the best poem ever written about John Rawls.

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Everybody chill out and take an epistemology pill

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Theateritis: “the tendency of military commanders to look only at the needs of their own theater of operation, and not at the requirements of fighting the war as a whole.”

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@phileisophos Thank you kindly, Samuel. I’m glad you are having fun. Who is teaching the course?