Month: February 2012

  • Episode 32: Jennifer Lockhart discusses ignorant knowledge

    This month we’re joined by Jennifer Lockhart, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University and recent graduate of the PhD program in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.  Click here to listen to our conversation with her. You’re at a party. Some guy is dominating the conversation, holding forth loudly and at great…

  • Branden Fitelson’s Recommended Readings

    Anyone who’s curious to learn more about the fallacies of inductive reasoning covered in our last episode can take a look at the following: On the base rate fallacy, see Jonathan J. Koehle’s “The base rate fallacy reconsidered: Descriptive, normative, and methodological challenges” On the conjunction fallacy, see Vincenzo Crupi, Branden Fitelson, and Katya Tentori’s…