Imagine there are 100 toy blocks in front of a toddler. Each of the blocks costs $1, 50 of them are red, 50 blue, and to build a sturdy little house requires about 75 or so blocks. By necessity the ...

This paper takes issue with a recent proposal due to Shogenji (Synthese 184:29—48, 2012). In his paper, Shogenji introduces J, a normatively motivated formal measure of justification (and of ...

Animals, like humans, appear to be troubled by a Linda problem. The famous “Linda problem” was designed by psychologists to illustrate how people fall prey to what is known as the conjunction fallacy: ...

There are many different ways to assess discrimination. My last post reviewed three recent papers, which use a range of methods, and found discrimination to be a relatively rare exception rather than ...

Animals, like humans, appear to be troubled by a Linda problem. The famous “Linda problem” was designed by psychologists to illustrate how people fall prey to what is known as the conjunction fallacy: ...

Physicians tend to excel in science and math, so it's a bit surprising that, in a new study, nearly 8 in 10 ― 78% ― committed a gaffe called the conjunction fallacy. Researchers asked doctors to ...

There are many different ways to assess discrimination. My last post reviewed three recent papers, which use a range of methods, and found discrimination to be a relatively rare exception rather than ...

This year gave us an idea: Why not sing the praises of a musician before she or he is dead? We picked Stevie Wonder, and declared this week Wonder Week. Leading a healthy pack of pieces about Stevie’s ...