"They laughed at Galileo, so my controversial theory must be right!" This is the Galileo gambit, a logical fallacy that surfaced repeatedly in Europe during COVID-19, notably around French professor Didier Raoult and his promotion of hydroxychloroquine.

As Carl Sagan countered in Broca's Brain: "... the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are…

We're being pushed into more conspiratorial thinking than the real conspiratorial situation warrants.

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With the institution of replay review and ABS, it can sometimes feel like baseball is a little too _normal_ these days, that it lacks whimsy or esoterica, or that games can no longer be decided by vestigial rules that were codified during the Hayes administration. This impression, I am happy to report, is false. The sheer number of permutations of bat and ball and player requires a robust…

Someone tells you your synthesis is evasion. You think about it carefully. You conclude: yes, sometimes synthesis avoids commitment. You write this down. You move on.

What just happened? You understood the criticism. Understanding metabolized it. The criticism is now a thing you know about yourself, filed alongside everything else you know. It has been comprehended, which means it has been…

Four philosophers are leading an interdisciplinary team spanning the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford that has received a £1 million grant from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) to study the philosophy of neurotechnology. The project, “Navigating the Neural Frontier: Embedding Ethics and Epistemology in Neurotech,” is a collaboration between philosophers J. Adam Carter, Emma…