Knowledge

  1. ‘Agnotology’: The Study of Ignorance (Medium)
  2. On Not Knowing by Emily Ogden (Medium)
  3. Turtles All the Way Down (Medium)
  4. What You Can’t Solve Haunts You (on “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”) (Medium)
  5. How trusting should we be of a fictional story? (DD)
  6. When we read a novel, we can know everything except what the novelist chose not to tell us (DMB)
  7. The Feeling of Knowing: On Steven Connor’s book The Madness of Knowledge (Medium)
  8. Toward a Better Epistemology: Why Do We Care About What We Know? (Gettier Problem) (Medium)
  9. Does Moll Flanders Know If Her Mother is Cheerful? (Gettier Problem) (Medium)
  10. Expertise is Knowing How to Survive (Medium)
  11. We Knew It Before We Were Quizzed (Medium)
  12. I Don’t Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance by Leah Hager Cohen (GR)
  13. ‘I haven’t thought of anything new’ (DD)
  14. Knowledge is a Repeating Question (on Anatheism) (Medium)
  15. The End of a Story May Be a Beginning (on Submarine by Anurag Andra) (Medium)
  16. ‘Cryptomnesia’ — a temporary forgetting — along with ‘plagiarism’ and ‘metafiction’ (DMB)
  17. Scheler’s ‘Wertnehmung’: Our attention for learning and valuing (DMB)
  18. If we don’t know what we’re promising, is the contract valid? (DMB)
  19. Is the body more real than the mind? (DD)
  20. Exploring the Shadows in Plato’s Cave (Medium)
  21. Truth is ‘Payment System Plus Apple/Android’ (Medium)
  22. Fringe-ology by Steve Volk (The Shadow)
  23. Escaping the Rabbit Hole by Mick West (The Shadow)
  24. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris (GR)
  25. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich (GR)
  26. On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Robert A. Burton (GR)
  27. Think Again by Adam Grant (GR)
  28. Lying by Sam Harris (GR)
  29. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin (GR)
  30. How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think by Andy Andrews (GR)
  31. Denying History by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman — how they organized the book (DMB)
  32. Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter (GR)
  33. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Medium)
  34. Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents by Robert Irwin (GR)
  35. Why people believe in conspiracy theories (Medium)
  36. Why Bother to Debunk What’s Obviously False? (Medium)
  37. Paranoid: Exploring Suspicion from the Dubious to the Delusional by David LaPorte (GR)
  38. The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t—and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Dan Gardner
  39. It’s Not Stated as Fact – But People Think It’s True (on political lies) (Medium)
  40. In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III (GR)
  41. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy by Chris Hayes (GR)
  42. Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever by Walter Kirn (GR)
  43. Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Identities by Jeff Schmidt (GR)
  44. Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads by Joel Best (GR)
  45. Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff (GR)
  46. We Do Not Ever Escape From Myth – on Other People’s Myths by Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty (Medium)
  47. Quotes: Passion, detachment, death-drive, ghosts, equilibrium, old-growth (DMB)
  48. Objective discovery, subjective interpretation (DMB)
  49. “White supremacy makes for terrible readers” (from How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo) (DMB)
  50. “We can’t represent the idea of representation” (on Mimetic Contagion by Robert Germany) (Medium)
  51. Thinking Without Words (Medium)
  52. How do dogs experience language and communication? (DD)
  53. Variations in storytelling: on Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison (Medium)
  54. What is metafiction? (after Black Metafiction by Madelyn Jablon) (Medium)
  55. What is hyperstition? (DD)
  56. You won’t be afraid of that book anymore (Medium)
  57. Discarding a Category That Does Not Serve (after Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller) (Medium)
  58. We do a lot of logical work to come up with our definitions (DMB)
  59. On encyclopedic urges (DMB)
  60. Native American philosophy (seen on Twitter)