Nathan Ballantyne

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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@nescio13 Fox or hedgehog?

The old hedgehog not smiling

@VanderburghBill Thank you, Bill!

This is a nice piece by @nathanballan on intellectual humility, curiosity, political disagreement, and bridging divides. thefulcrum.us/civic-engageme…

I wrote a short essay about a disagreement I recently had with a friend. thefulcrum.us/civic-engageme…

Desert kit fox

Course readers are back in style

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! the-workbench.ca/interviews/pen…

@resistancemoney Thank you for your kind words, Andrew.

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.

@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.

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

On Epistemic Trespassing and Synthetic Philosophy (with some Michael Polanyi and @nathanballan) open.substack.com/pub/digression…

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. youtu.be/P7ZZODyBeFM?si…

@rbnmckenna86 Maybe @iamnotabiv knows?

There are all these surveys about the political views of a American academics. Surely someone has done one for UK academia but I can’t find anything comparable to what you see for the US. Anyone know of anything?

The author is John Koethe.

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

Everybody chill out and take an epistemology pill

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.”

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

@nathanballan It’s such a fun read and a great exercise to engage with the ideas!

Reviewing the first four chapters of @nathanballan's Knowing Our Limits in our Epistemology Seminar today!